[fa.info-vax] SMG and VMS4.n

info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (07/17/85)

From: Todd Aven <decvax!seismo!maryland.ARPA!eneevax!umdhep@BERKELEY>

MAIL and HELP are the only utilities that I know of that use SMG for
actual screen formatting. I'd like to make a general request of
info-vax subscribers:

There are probably many out there who are working on termtables for
the day when SMG is used by the majority of VMS utilities. I would
appreciate it (and I am sure many others would) if successful
terminal definitions could be posted to info-vax. We will eventually
be dealing with termtables in a fashion similar to termcaps and
UNIX news groups.

And a bit of advice for new SMG users:

The manuals aren't very clear about the logical name TERM$TABLOC.
I got the impression that it should be an equivalence for the
file name, but it should instead be an equivalence for the directory
in which termtable.exe resides.

For those who would like their termtable.exe mapped into global
sections but don't want to reboot, I have written a veerrry short
FORTRAN 4.1 program to delete the old global section. Then one can
run sys$system:smgmaptrm to get a new global section installed.
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