peter@julian.UWO.CDN (Peter Marshall) (09/26/87)
I have a problem with GNU emacs 18.47 on our VMS machines (a clustered 8600 and an 8550). I recently installed this verion on our VMS machines without any severe problems. When went to try out the resulting .EXE file all I got was garbage on my screen. This is not random garbage either. It is consistently the same (for the same file being displayed). Keyboard input seems to be unaffected. I looked at the characters being sent and they were completely wrong, not only for my terminal, but for any terminal type in the TERMCAP.DAT file. Probably a bug somewhere in the terminal dependent stuff, right? I'm not so sure. I did the building from home via a slow speed (2400 bps) telephone connection. When I got to work and tried the program it worked fine on my VT100 emulator. On a terminal similar to the one I had at home the program worked fine as well. Speed did not seem to be a factor. The only way that I was able to recreate the problem at work was to make a call out on a modem and back in again. This seems to indicate that there is some interaction between using a modem and GNU emacs? I can't see how emacs could even know. All of our connections to our VMS machines go through a common Gandalf data switch. As far as VMS and GNU emacs is conscerned they see a connection from the Gandalf PACX. Whether the connection was hard wired or a telephone modem connection on the other side should not be able to make any difference. The only possibility would be that emacs is sending out some sequence that is putting the modem into a strange state. There are two many different pairs of modems involved in this though. And everything is just fine when you exit ^X^C from emacs. Recently we installed the same version of emacs on a uVAXII running Ultrix 1.2. It does not have this problem. ( I am using it now. ) Also a previous version of GNU emacs v17-??? on VMS does not exhibit this problem (but it has its own problems!). I can't figure it out. Any help would be appreciated. -- Peter Marshall, Data Comm. Manager CCS, U. of Western Ontario, London, Canada N6A 5B7 (519)661-2151x6032 pm@uwovax.BITNET; pm@uwovax.uwo.cdn; peter@julian.uucp; ...!watmath!julian!peter