CASETEK@CRVAX.SRI.COM.UUCP (02/20/87)
In reply to Mike Iglesias <iglesias%unxa.uci.edu@ICS.UCI.EDU> > ... - lines are missing, characters are missing, sometimes >part of the first line ends up in the border between the scan listing >at the top of the screen and the mail message. This happens whether >one is coming into the uvax on a terminal line or via rlogin from another >system. ... I will leave gnu-emacs specific advice to those with more extensive knowlege of it's inards; but I do have some experience with VAXstations. We have several in-house running VMS, and on the rare occasions when we have tried to use the serial ports, we have experienced character lossage at baud rates as low as 4800. I don't know how much of this is VMS overhead, and how much is bad hardware design. We have also experienced some character loss when using DECnet remote login and 60 line Ambassador screens. If the problem does turn out to be character dropping and you are using ANSI (vt100) terminals, you might want to add the following line to your termcap: (is Ultrix bsd or Sys V?) :DC=\E[%dP:DL=\E[%dM:IC=\E[%d@:AL=\E[%dL: This declares the parameterized versions of delete/insert character/line. This is also VERY helpful when running directly on a Sun workstation.
iglesias%unxa.uci.edu@ICS.UCI.EDU.UUCP (02/21/87)
We've seen the problem with Zenith H19s and IBM PCs running KERMIT, and possibly Datamedia 1520s. I tried changing the padding for the H19s in /etc/termcap, and all I managed to do was slow down the screen displays - it didn't fix the problem. As for the problem of the 'goto' command putting the cursor at the end of the border above the minibuffer, I ran emacs on a terminal that can show the control characters, and emacs is generating a cursor address string to put the cursor there (as far as I can tell). Mike
kant@homxc.UUCP (K.KANT) (10/26/88)
I am having trouble running GNU emacs on televideo 965 terminal (under system V). The termcap is set for tvi950, since I don't have anything better. The display keeps getting messed up, even on cursor movement. I would appreciate any help in the matter. Thanks. --Krishna kant@homxc.att.com or kant@gondor.cs.psu.edu