[comp.sys.mac] ZTerm 0.8

jnoh@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Jay Noh) (08/31/89)

Has anyone had any difficulties with terminal emulations using ZTerm 0.8?

Specifically, when using 'vi' on a UNIX host, the last character gets erased
from the screen when I press 'ESC' after entering text.
It's not actually gone, however, if you do a screen redraw (CTRL-L), the
last character reappears.

Also, when I move around the screen a la (h,j,k,l), 'h' seems to erase the
characters from the screen where 'l' would rewrite them.

Any help would be appreciated.

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MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi) (09/01/89)

Dave Alverson, ZTerm's author, is reachable at:

72155.1560@compuserve.com

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chag@engrhub.ucsb.edu (Barry Brown) (09/01/89)

In article <1451@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> jnoh@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Jay Noh) writes:
|
|Has anyone had any difficulties with terminal emulations using ZTerm 0.8?
|
|Specifically, when using 'vi' on a UNIX host, the last character gets erased
|from the screen when I press 'ESC' after entering text.
|It's not actually gone, however, if you do a screen redraw (CTRL-L), the
|last character reappears.
|
|Also, when I move around the screen a la (h,j,k,l), 'h' seems to erase the
|characters from the screen where 'l' would rewrite them.


I don't experience the same problem, but nevertheless, here's what David
Alverson has to say about it:

"There is a problem in v0.8, especially if you connect to Unix or VAX
machines.  I made a received backspace destructive, but on a vt100 it shouldn't
be.  You can remove this "feature" with a disk editor like FEdit.  Go to
offset 10BEE and change 4EBA 0004 to 4E71 4E71."

Barry Brown
normally 6600hgns@ucsbuxa.bitnet