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From: mcb@tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Sysline for VT100?
Message-ID: <22407@tis.llnl.gov>
Date: 22 Sep 88 21:32:28 GMT
Reply-To: mcb@tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch)
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA
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Pardon me if this is a completely Joe question, but I've been asked to
check out whether a VT100 (real or emulator) can be made to work with 
sysline(1), via a special termcap, some sort of initialization 
string, etc.?

My understanding was that VT100s (we don't have any real ones here,
only various emulations on PCs, Macs, and non-DEC terminals) don't
have an addressable, writable status line, but I'm willing to be
corrected.

Any info appreciated, preferably by mail as I don't get to
comp.terminals often.

Thanks,

Michael C. Berch 
mcb@tis.llnl.gov / uunet!tis.llnl.gov!mcb / ames!lll-tis!mcb