unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) (10/10/88)
The following message is from a file I wrote right after AppleFest and
uploaded to many local bulletin boards I call...I thought that some of you
might still be interested in it...
Adventures at AppleFest Concerning ProTERM
Today was a very interesting day at AppleFest...
I had the honor to speak to the person who wrote ProTERM...I do not
recall his name though! {Since this post, I've remembered/been informed that
his name is Greg Shaffer...Probable misspelling of his last name}
I told him about the bugs that I know about in ProTERM, and this
message will tell you the outcome of what I told him...
Concerning the VT100 bug where, if a line goes over 80 characters
without a return, an extra linefeed is given to the SCREEN but that is NOT
KNOWN on the host system, thus totally "screwing things up royally." The
writer said that that was NOT a bug, but a feature...The generic line...But
he then explained what he meant...
On VT100 terminals, there is some type of an OPTION where you can tell
the program to WORD-WRAP at 80 columns [move the cursor down] or to just stay
in the 80th position without going down a line. In ProTERM 2.01 and lower,
thedefault was that it would give the double-linefeeds [I believe that would
correspond with the WORD-WRAP option named above], but on ProTERM 2.1
[I've been told it's not available yet even in the pirate world] the default
is the OTHER option, making it act the way we would presume it should when it
gets to the 80th column.
Even on ProTERM 2.01 and lower, however, I was told that you can make a
procedure that says something like "OP W-" or "OP W+"..Even the author of
ProTERM did not remember which was which, but if you test it out you can figure
out which one works which way...
Concerning the bug in the SCROLLBACK [it would give an extra linefeed
when first going up a line in scrollback]...That was fixed in ProTERM 2.1
also...It was something he knew about but ignored in 2.01 [and 2.02 I presume].
And, I asked him if he would make ProTERM Special work in scrollback.
He said that in ProTERM 2.1 it will do that. It will not, however, save to disk
or work in the editor that way [there was some bullcrap kind of answer he was
telling me saying it was too hard of a thing to do, but I even asked him if he
couldn't just do the control character to turn on MouseText, etc...just like
anything else does it...but he said it would be just too big of a pain].
He also said that in ProTERM 2.1 you can SAVE the scrollback and RELOAD
something into the scrollback...It's a special filetype of its own though, it
doesn't take any generic text or AppleWorks file.
Any more I can think of that I didn't say here will be posted later...
Any comments or questions would be gladly answered if possible.
-tuu