info-vax (07/17/82)
>From TIHOR@NYU Fri Jul 16 22:17:26 1982
Did you set the terminal type properly? I was assured with great vehemence
by various people in the VMS developement group that it had been written using
the "foreign terminal" package so if you set your terminal to the appropriate
/FTn type where n is whatever number your system manager assigned to the
type of terminal you use all should be well on any terminal with reasonable
screen addressing. Of course that means that someone has to have written the
FT code for your terminal type and installed it at your site. No big deal
but some people are very lazy. Still if you only have ~8 common terminals
to worry about then even writting all the FT code yourself is almost
cretainly easier than writting a talk type program yourself.
Off hand the coding for a shared writable global section seems simplest
and should require almost no original work since shared data is a fairly
well understood problem domain.