sqrkl@csvax.liv.ac.uk (03/17/88)
I know this should be e-mailed directly to Simon Poole, but I'm not sure that
I have access to the appropriate network...
Here's some more 'bugs' I've found in UniTerm 2.0a 020 :
Please note, I'm using a colour system, so the following may not apply to
a mono system. Therefore, no "flames" please if these bugs don't appear on your
mono ST...
1) The E-test (ESC # 8) is extremely suspect. It fills the screen with E's,
but fails to reset the line attributes or home the cursor to 1,1. Hence,
if the cursor was on a double-width, double-height line, any text printed
AFTER the E-test will still have the same attributes (instead of being
single-height, single-width as it should be).
2) It appears that no ESC [ value v (where value = 0,1,2,3,4 or 5) escape
sequences (they modify the cursor attributes) have been supported. This
is unusual, because it can be configured from the 'Terminal 1' menu option.
3) Not all double-height/double width modes have been implemented. This may
not apply when running in mono though.
4) Downwards scrolling on a colour monitor is annoying if you haven't carefully
twiddled the Control Panel colour settings. From what I can tell, the 3
bit-planes are getting scrolled independently which can cause multi-coloured
flickering.
5) The cursor does not expand to double-width when it is on a line with a
double-width attribute.
6) ESC # 9 is not supported. This fills the screen with a character assortment
(in which the character attributes vary from line to line).
7) The VT52 entry sequence ESC > doesn't appear to be supported. The terminal
type must be changed inside the 'Terminal 1' dialog.
8) Move the cursor to a line with some (varied) text on it. Enter LOCAL mode
and type ESC # 3 (double-width, double-height, top half). Instead of
redrawing the line in the new attributes, the character from the first
column of the line is duplicated 40 times !!!! I believe this is OK on
a mono system, though.
I know some of these points may seem like nit-picking to you, but I'm just
trying to highlight some of the missing features/bug-fixes that would be
useful in UniTerm 2.1a (I assume this is the next major release number).
Richard K. Lloyd, ***************************************************
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