info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (07/22/85)
From: H}vard Eidnes <H_Eidnes%vax.runit.unit.uninett@NTA-VAX>
Does anyone agree that the following are bugs in VMS?
Has any of these been corrected, or pointed out before?
1) The character ^B is echoed by the VMS terminal driver
when the user is running DCL. I usually run on a terminal
that interprets this character as "video off"!
2) SMG does not handle the line-drawing capabilities in a terminal-
independent fashion. SMG assumes that all the line-drawing chacter
strings are of length *one*, and that a "shift in" and "shift out"
sequence is used to control the selection of character sets.
We have a lot of terminals that does not use this strategy, instead
a "single-shift-2" character set selection sequence is used. (Selects
alternative char. set only for the next character.) So we tried to
define "begin_..." and "end_..." as empty, and the individual string
capabilities for line drawing as three-character sequences. BUT SMG
REFUSED TO PRINT ANY OF THESE! We found out that all went OK if we
defined all the line-drawing string capabilities to be of length one.
(But then we were not able to select the alternative character set for
the line-drawing characters...)
3) SHOW SYSTEM now outputs 80 characters on each line. Some
terminals will wrap on the next character, regardless wether
this is <cr> or not. Thus, the print-out from SHOW SYSTEM
gets double-spaced... (And such was not the case with SHOW SYSTEM
in the previous version of VMS (3.7).)
I (in my naivity...) thought that SET TERMINAL/WIDTH=79 might
alleviate this problem, but such was not the case. (SHOW SYSTEM
does not check the terminal width...) Is it not possible to restrict
the printing width to 79 chars?info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (07/23/85)
From: Keith F. Lynch <KFL@MIT-MC.ARPA> Try SET TERMINAL /NOWRAP ...Keith