pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov (Peter Scott) (01/08/91)
I often wish to cut a large piece of text from one xterm (I have
saveLines set to 1000) into another (e.g., sending session scripts
from a different machine in mail, etc) and I find that not all of
the pasted text gets accepted sometimes.
If I'm pasting text into, say, a Unix cat >thing or mail some@one
command, somewhere short of ~100 average lines the pasted text
will be truncated. The truncation point is pseudo-random; I can
paste again and again and it will move. It seems to me that this
could be solved with some stty setting but I don't know what; this
is what I have set in my xterms:
speed 9600 baud, 57 rows, 80 columns
parenb -parodd cs7 -cstopb -hupcl cread -clocal -crtscts
-ignbrk brkint ignpar -parmrk -inpck istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl -iuclc
ixon -ixany -ixoff imaxbel
isig iexten icanon -xcase echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -tostop
echoctl -echoprt echoke
opost -olcuc onlcr -ocrnl -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel
erase kill werase rprnt flush lnext susp intr quit stop eof
^? ^U ^W ^R ^O ^V ^Z/^Y ^C ^\ ^S/^Q ^D
Closely related to this, pasting text into a VMS session window results
in even less being accepted, with a corresponding data overrun error.
The window is an xterm in which telnet has been executed; after logging
on to VMS I execute a SET TERM/INQUIRE command. This is what I end up
with:
Terminal: _XXA0: Device_Type: VT100 Owner: Peter Scott
Username: PJS
Input: 9600 LFfill: 0 Width: 80 Parity: None
Output: 9600 CRfill: 0 Page: 24
Terminal Characteristics:
Interactive Echo Type_ahead No Escape
No Hostsync TTsync Lowercase Tab
Wrap Scope Remote No Eightbit
Broadcast No Readsync No Form Fulldup
Modem No Local_echo Autobaud Hangup
No Brdcstmbx No DMA No Altypeahd Set_speed
Line Editing Overstrike editing No Fallback No Dialup
No Secure server Disconnect No Pasthru No Syspassword
No SIXEL Graphics No Soft Characters No Printer Port Numeric Keypad
ANSI_CRT No Regis No Block_mode Advanced_video
No Edit_mode DEC_CRT No DEC_CRT2 No DEC_CRT3
I would dearly love to know how to solve either or both of these
problems, they are cramping my style something severe. Thanks in
advance for any help; send me e-mail and I'll summarize.
The workstation is a Sun IPC (4/40), running SunOS 4.1, X11R4.18, motif 1.1.
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