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From: elg@killer.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Help wanted for vt100-128
Message-ID: <2317@killer.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 01:34:11 EST
Article-I.D.: killer.2317
Posted: Sat Dec  5 01:34:11 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 9-Dec-87 22:16:24 EST
References: <739@unmvax.unm.edu>
Organization: Bayou Telecommunications
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Keywords: terminal emulator, vt100-128

In article <739@unmvax.unm.edu> thangol@merlin.UUCP (Tsun Wong) writes:
>Is anybody out there using the "vt100-128" terminal emulator that comes with 
>the CBM modem/1200?
>
>    "Common Sense" and "vt52-64" also come with the modem/1200, but I didn't
>use them because I wanted to work in the 80 column mode.  I have been using 
>the "vt100-128" to communicate with the Vaxen here, but I have not been able
>to use "vi", apparently "vt100-128" does not completely emulates the vt100. Has

I assume that your problem is that "vi" assumes that it's an 80 column
terminal, and thus prints characters into the 80th column, which on a VT100
means the cursor stays on column 80, but on VT100-128 by default wraps
around to the next line. You have two choices: Use Commodore-\ (English Pound
symbol) to disable the linewrap, or else make your own termcap that says you
have a 79 column terminal (in which case "vi" won't do such nasty things).
Makes me homesick for Emacs, which doesn't make stupid assumptions about the
position of the cursor after printing to the 80th column, like "vi" does.

I do have a termcap for the VT100-128 program that enables both
delete-character and insert-character functions (with minor modifications in
VT100-128's translation tables, documented therein). Alas, it's currently in
Lafayette, Louisiana, and this is Dallas, and USL's network connections are
out of order until further notice due to phone line prblems....

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