herb@mtuxo.att.com (01212-H.COHEN) (10/26/88)
I tried to download and run qvt on my AT&T 6300. The next thing I knew, the PC wouldn't boot from the c: drive. All the files in my home directory were erased! All the subdirectories and files were OK but most of the system files in c:/ were gone. Even Norton Utilities couldn't recover the data. Anyone is welcome to tell me wht I did wrong, in which case I apologize for this posting, but I believe I was following directions properly. I'm certainly not going to try it again. Herb Cohen ...!mtuxo!herb
pervect@bsu-cs.UUCP (Barrett Kreiner) (10/28/88)
In article <3191@mtuxo.att.com>, herb@mtuxo.att.com (01212-H.COHEN) writes: > > I tried to download and run qvt on my AT&T 6300. The next thing I > knew, the PC wouldn't boot from the c: drive. All the files in my > home directory were erased! All the subdirectories and files were > OK but most of the system files in c:/ were gone. Even Norton > Utilities couldn't recover the data. > > Anyone is welcome to tell me wht I did wrong, in which case I > apologize for this posting, but I believe I was following directions > properly. I'm certainly not going to try it again. > > Herb Cohen > ...!mtuxo!herb I have tested this program for our users here at bsu-cs.. I ran it on an zenith ibm-xt compatable running windows verson 2.03 and windows version 1.04. these were my results: 1) the font given was garbage on the 1.04 windows. 2) for windows 2.03, I following the instructions: I replaced vt?.fon with vtherc.fon.. no font appeared.. so I reloaded vt?.fon.. I had *NO* problems.. found it to be a useful program.. hope this helps somebody to make their decision.. |---------------------------------------------------------------------|-----| | Barrett Kreiner UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!pervect | :-] | | Technical Manager, Fine Arts Computer Lab|--------------------------|-----| | Ball State University. Muncie, Indiana |This space left blank on purpose| |------------------------------------------|--------------------------------| | How am I computing? Let my parents know at ddsw1!kreiner (HI ma & dad) | | Disclamer: "I don't know them! I'm a student, nobody listens to ME!" | |---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) (10/28/88)
I tried out qvt under Windows 386, version 2.1. No apparent problems surfaced. It does do gooffy things when scrolling, unless you have the window maXimied to full screen. Ie: it seems to scroll the bottom line appearing in the window, rather than the line that is on the bottom of the terminal screen. Normally this wouldn't be a problem, unless something happened to type out while you had qvt shrunken down to do something else. I suspect that losing the C:\ directory on the AT&T 6300 was a non-related event. I did decide to stick with procomm, rather than changing to qvt, as procomm getts along a little better with vi in the handling of the arrow keys. --Bill
UD047203@NDSUVM1.BITNET (10/31/88)
Yes, The font supplied with qvt2.6 are garbage. I too have window 1.04.
Here was what I did, I copy the font supplied with window as VT220 and it
works. I hope it will help the one who has the window 1.04.
Larrykaldis@topaz.rutgers.edu (Theodore A. Kaldis) (11/04/88)
In article <1531UD047203@NDSUVM1> UD047203@NDSUVM1.BITNET writes: > Yes, The font supplied with qvt2.6 are garbage. I too have window 1.04. > Here was what I did, I copy the font supplied with window as VT220 and it > works. I hope it will help the one who has the window 1.04. I downloaded it, and it works almost fine with Windows 2.0 and an EGA. The problem I have is that I cannot send an Esc. code. Anyone have any ideas as to why? (I am also using a 102 key keyboard.) -- Theodore A. Kaldis | "Perhaps we may +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- | frighten away email: kaldis@topaz.rutgers.edu | the ghost of so UUCP: {...}!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!kaldis | many years ago U.S. Snail: P.O. Box #1212, Woodbridge, NJ 07095 | with a little ex-Ma Bell: (201) 283-4855 (voice) | illumination . . ."