mc68020@gilsys.UUCP (Thomas J Keller) (09/13/87)
One of my users calls in from home on a Televideo 803 (CP/M system
w/integral TVI825 terminal). I am using the TVI825 termcap for him.
He experiences *VERY* strange behaviour while using vnews:
Many of the inter-word spaces are missing. Not all, and it appears to be
randomly distributed, but MOST of the spaces just disappear.
Oddly enough, if he saves an article to a file, it looks FINE when viewed
with more, or with vi. I am at a loss to explain this behaviour to him.
Perhaps someone out there has seen similar behaviour and has an explanation/
fix?
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Tom Keller
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UUCP : {ihnp4,ames,sun,amdahl,lll-crg,pyramid}!ptsfa!gilsys!mc68020billw@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner) (09/15/87)
mc68020@gilsys.UUCP (Thomas J Keller) in <1127@gilsys.UUCP>: > One of my users calls in from home on a Televideo 803 (CP/M system > w/integral TVI825 terminal). I am using the TVI825 termcap for him. > He experiences *VERY* strange behaviour while using vnews: > > Many of the inter-word spaces are missing. Not all, and it appears to be > randomly distributed, but MOST of the spaces just disappear. > > Oddly enough, if he saves an article to a file, it looks FINE when viewed > with more, or with vi. I am at a loss to explain this behaviour to him. > Perhaps someone out there has seen similar behaviour and has an explanation/ > fix? Tabs are your problem. It appears your user's CP/M machine isn't properly handling tab characters.. or, more succinctly, it's ignoring them. Vnews plasters the things all over the place. It makes quite a mess on MY home computer, as well. Have him drop a stty tab3 in his .profile; this will make UNIX expand tab characters into spaces. That should cure vnews' obnoxious behavior. If not.. I dunno.