Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!killer!elg 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 Lines: 28 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.... -- Eric Green elg@usl.CSNET Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191 {cbosgd,ihnp4}!killer!elg Lafayette, LA 70509 Hello darkness my old friend, I've come to talk with you again....