info-mac@uw-beaver (01/11/85)
From: Don Lanini <Us.Dcl%CU20B@COLUMBIA.ARPA> Has anyone noticed a problem with MacTerm's VT102 terminal emulation? I have a handout from Apple about MacTerm stating that it would support the nicer features of the VT102 (above and beyond the VT100), like INSERT LINE and INSERT CHARACTER. But when I tried it, I found that only INSERT LINE worked properly and INSERT CHARACTER only made a mess of the screen. I waited patiently for version 1.1, but the problem has been consistent in every version since -0.5. Has anyone else had this problem? Don Lanini User Services -------
info-mac@uw-beaver (01/14/85)
From: edmoy%ucbopal.CC@Berkeley I've also noticed problems with the "above and beyond VT100" features. With the termcap for the mac that was distributed over the net awhile back, I noticed that the insert character messes up badly at 9600 baud, and the delete character doesn't quite work without padding. A test at 1200 baud worked better, but not without padding. So I took out the insert character stuff and padded the delete character and my quick test with "vi" seemed to work, though "more" is still having problems. I'll be continuing to work on the termcap, as time allows. Edward Moy Computing Services University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 edmoy@ucbopal.ARPA ucbvax!ucbopal!edmoy
info-mac@uw-beaver (01/17/85)
From: Reed.SoftArts@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA Original-Date: 13 JAN 1985 12:38:04 Resent-Date: Thu 17 Jan 85 00:01:24-PST Resent-From: INFO-MAC@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA Resent-To: ;@info-mac The problem you are having may be due to the fact that the "insert character" command that MacTerminal clains to emulate is one that I don't find anywhwere in my VT102 manual... the command they interpret is the esc-...-@ command which they claim inserts n spaces. My VT102 manual does not document such a command, but does documnet various ways to go into an insert mode (as opposed to overwrite mode). Perhaps VT102's have such a command, but I suspect it is not there but does exist in other ANSI terminals.
info-mac@uw-beaver (01/17/85)
From: Reed.SoftArts@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA Original-Date: 13 JAN 1985 12:38:04 Resent-Date: Thu 17 Jan 85 00:10:39-PST Resent-From: INFO-MAC@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA Resent-To: ;@info-mac The problem you are having may be due to the fact that the "insert character" command that MacTerminal clains to emulate is one that I don't find anywhwere in my VT102 manual... the command they interpret is the esc-...-@ command which they claim inserts n spaces. My VT102 manual does not document such a command, but does documnet various ways to go into an insert mode (as opposed to overwrite mode). Perhaps VT102's have such a command, but I suspect it is not there but does exist in other ANSI terminals.
info-mac@uw-beaver (01/18/85)
From: Randy Schulz <lcc.randy@UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA>
I have MacTerminal 1.1 and cannot get satisfactory performance with
any termcap entry I'v gotten, found or tried to modify from an
existing vt100 entry (on 4.1bsd Unix system running `vi'). However,
it works beautifully under terminfo vi on a AT&T 3B2 running 5.2 Unix.
I might therefor suspect problems with termcap entries, or with the
applications using termcap to MacTerminal.
Randy Schulz
Locus Computing Corp.
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