njd@ihlpm.UUCP (04/07/87)
In a previous posting, I reported that I was not able to get OmniCom to work properly with vi on this system (ihlpm, an Amdahl UTS system). I since was able to log in to uniqvax at my home office (I am a contractor), a VAX running System V Release 3 (my company ported it) and OmniCom and vi got along fine! Also, I tried a lab support VAX here at Bell Labs and vi worked with OmniCom there. Finally I noticed that whenever a line longer than the screen was output, not in vi, but just when at the "shell level", OmniCom would not wrap it. Instead, the characters just "buzzed" at the end of the 80-column line. I looked over my notes on a hard copy of the dec.ti (terminfo source for DEC terminals) file and realized that what I had was not a "vt100", but a "vt100-nam" according to dec.ti. I tried TERM=vt100-nam, and that caused vi, more, and vnews to work just fine (on this UTS system and another here). So, I can now join my voice to John Sangster's and others in recommending OMNIVIEW and OmniCom to anyone who wants to use their 8-bit Atari as an 80-column terminal. I am writing this article on it right now, and it is working fine. It does insert and delete line, but no insert/delete character (but "redraw" is tolerable-to-fine at 1200 bps, at least for me). OMNIVIEW and OmniCom were well worth the wait. Now, Mr. Young, about that "ascii capture" and "lostkeyclick (the latter I am beginning to get used to, actually)... Nick (happily 80-column-ing at last) DiMasi P.S. Oops, sorry I confused OmniCom and OmniTerm... they really are different (but I haven't tried O'Term so I can't comment on it).