[bit.listserv.ibmtcp-l] tn3270

TOMHO@PURCCVM.BITNET (Thomas I. M. Ho) (01/11/90)

I decided to cross-post this to ibmtcp-l as well as tn3270

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Using the following:
        Ultrix 3.1

        tn3270 4.1.1  (right off ucbarpa.berkeley.edu last week)

        vt100 definitions in /etc/termcap define a 24x80 screen

I am using telnet to logon to
 VM/SP/HPO release 5 with IBM FAL TCP/IP 1.2.1.

HOWEVER, some screens such as the VM logon screen and whenever I use
"q disk" do not display correctly.  Any ideas about what's wrong?

Also, often new screens do not completely write over previous screens.

TROTH@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU (Rick Troth) (01/12/90)

>HOWEVER, some screens such as the VM logon screen and whenever I use
>"q disk" do not display correctly.  Any ideas about what's wrong?

        Try turning on "auto wrap" on your VT100 (or whatever is
emulating a VT100).  By default,  the "terminal" does not move the
cursor to the start of the next line when it gets to the end of the
current line in most VT100/ANSI implementations.  (some people prefer
this;  some don't)  But the I/O routines used by TN3270  (parts of
TERMCAP ?)  expect it.

        Gee ... the trouble we go thru to save a CR/LF    :-)

 Rick Troth <TROTH@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU> ------------- Rice ONCS VM Systems Support