gerolima@wdl1.UUCP (10/26/85)
Re: Subject: tset vt100 destroys scrolling on SUN-2/120 >We have discovered that accidentally doing a "tset vt100" from >our SUN consoles screws up their scrolling (and vi, and more, and....) >The problem is due to the initialization string sent to the >console (ESC[1;24r). We have not been able to reinitialize the console >to its virgin state without rebooting (ugh!). Is there a nice >solution, and if so, is it documented anywhere? You must remember that the Sun console is NOT a vt100. Most notably, it is of different dimensions (34x80 vs 24x80). The "\E[1;24t" is setting the height (I guess) to 24 lines. It is obvious that this is going to screw up vi (yay!), emacs (boo!...but let's leave that to net.flame), ROUGUE, HACK...(excuse, excuse! getting away from myself). Quick solution? Tset back to "sun." (and then do a "reset" to be safe) I'm sure that it's in your /etc/termcap (under ND), or the yp termcap (under NFS). There may be documentation for this, but I see no need for it. After all, isn't UNIX s'pposed to be kriptyc, anyway? Mark Gerolimatos (Henry made a wizard out of Markie!)^ Arpa: gerolima@ford-wdl1 UUCP: fortune!wdl1!gerolima ^ For those to whom this line was lost on: "Henry made a lady out of Lizzy" was the slogan for the Model-A Ford.
guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) (11/09/85)
> I'm sure that it's in your /etc/termcap (under ND), or the yp termcap > (under NFS). "yp termcap"? What the hell is that? We certainly don't have it on any machines at *this* site.... (Also note that there is no reference *whatsoever* to a Yellow Pages "termcap" database under "Yellow Pages Policies" in the "Sun Network Services" documentation, or in "termcap(5)", or in the "termcap" software.) > There may be documentation for this... There is; see CONS(4S) in the Sun UNIX 2.0 System Interface Manual. (No, it wasn't in the 1.x documentation; *nostra culpa* - not *mea*, I didn't work here then.) Guy Harris
phil@trlamct.uucp (phil) (11/23/85)
>We have discovered that accidentally doing a "tset vt100" from >our SUN consoles screws up their scrolling (and vi, and more, and....) >The problem is due to the initialization string sent to the >console (ESC[1;24r). We have not been able to reinitialize the console >to its virgin state without rebooting (ugh!). Is there a nice >solution, and if so, is it documented anywhere? The solution is to send the string (ESC[s) to the console - e.g. % echo '^[[s' We had the same problem and it took ages to find the documentation. Appendix A.8.1.2 of the System Manager's Manual lists all the control sequences used by the Sun terminal. Phil Nicholson. D D
guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) (11/28/85)
> We had the same problem and it took ages to find the documentation. > Appendix A.8.1.2 of the System Manager's Manual lists all the control > sequences used by the Sun terminal. In the Sun UNIX 2.0 documentation, this information was also added to CONS(4) in the System Interface Manual (and the additional sequences accepted by the terminal emulator in Shelltool are documented in the SunWindows manual). Unlike a certain large telephone company, we don't force you to read administrator's manuals to find out how devices work... Guy Harris