elliott@yosemite.steinmetz (08/15/88)
In article <25727@think.UUCP> whitney@godot.think.com.UUCP (David Whitney) writes: >In article <1183@netmbx.UUCP> blume@netmbx.UUCP (Heiko Blume) writes: >>zlink is next ! >>- TAB set/reset doesn't work >OK, I have to point out a few things. First, it seems you have an >older version of Z-Link. Of the above bugs reported, the following >have been fixed and distributed in the last version (7/31) >-TAB set/reset does work Similarly, Heiko reported that Tab set/reset did not work in ATP. In fact, it does. The problem is a bug in VTTEST which I had encountered before and forgotten about. When VTTEST is compiled on some versions of UNIX, it fails to configure the TTY driver to send Tab characters transparently. So the UNIX machine converts the Tabs to eight spaces, and the terminal program never sees them, nor gets a chance to show that it correctly advances to the next tab stop. Even real, live VT100s "fail" this test on these machines. Someone was kind enough to send me a new copy of the vttest source (unfortunately, all the information my mailer gave me was "zz1ml%sdcc3@UCSD.EDU" so I don't know who to thank) and I was pleased to be able to watch ATP still pass with flying colors (and iron out some kinks in the pseudo-graphics characters). The Tab set/reset test does work right in SunOS (Berkeley UNIX). (The way I originally tracked down this problem, as I was tearing my hair out, trying to figure out why ATP did the tab set/clear right when I tested it by hand, but not in VTTEST, was to launch the TEST segment of ATP and watch the exact character sequences that were being sent me.) . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . ... . . Jim Elliott / ...!seismo!uunet!steinmetz!crd!elliott / userE2U7@rpitsmts.BITNET "Don't look, son, it's / Jim_Elliott%mts@itsgw.rpi.edu [school] a secular humanist!" / (or) elliott@ge-crd.arpa [work] . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . ... . .