[comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc] Problems with KA9Q terminal emulation

spexet@ux.acs.umn.edu (D. Robert Spexet II) (08/19/90)

I'm using KA9Q for a SLIP connection to our local terminal server,
so that I can use Telnet and FTP services.

Also, when I telnet to our local UNIX machine, I would like my PC to act like
a VT100 terminal.  Herein lies the problem.

First, when the terminal output reaches the bottom of the screen and the lines
scroll up, the first character of the bottom line that scrolls up disappears.
This has the effect of the entire first column of the screen being blank if the
screen scrolls for more than a few lines.

Also, when I enter VI, the screen flips into 40-column mode, and there is no
easy way to get out of this.

Is there any way that this can be remedied?  I'm using KA9Q with an IBM PS/2
Model 50, and the ANSI.SYS display file.  I suspect that the problem lies with
ANSI.SYS, but I don't know exactly what that problem is.

Thanks,

-D. Robert Spexet II, Post Offce Box 14909, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414-0909
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karn@envy..bellcore.com (Phil R. Karn) (08/20/90)

Try using my latest version of NOS (available from thumper.bellcore.com
under /pub/ka9q/nos) and Ron Henderson's version of NANSI.SYS (also on
thumper, under /pub/ka9q/nansi). Both work quite well with emacs here.

The erasing of the first column is the fault of the old ansi.sys; for
some silly reason, it displays NUL as a space, and NUL often follows CR
in telnet output. Ron's version ignores NUL, and it also does
nondestructive TABbing. My recent version of NOS fixes newline mapping
on output (among other things), so together you should have much better
results.

Phil