[comp.sys.mac.comm] ZTerm Bug

cluther@supernet.UUCP (Clay Luther) (07/26/90)

Has anyone had the following happen to them while using ZTerm?  I found it
occurs most often when using some heavy vt100 program, like TPU on a vax or
occasionally any curses program on unix.

ZTerm writes a line of output in the status bar and the bottom of the window:

---------------
|            ||
| Text Area  || < scrollbar
|            ||
--------------|
| Status     ||
--------------

Is that a pretty bad rendition of a mac window, or what?

Anyway, this happens at least once every login.


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psych@watserv1.waterloo.edu (R.Crispin - Psychology) (07/26/90)

In article <1990Jul25.182731.2782@supernet.UUCP> cluther@supernet.UUCP (Clay Luther) writes:
>Has anyone had the following happen to them while using ZTerm?  I found it
>occurs most often when using some heavy vt100 program, like TPU on a vax or
>occasionally any curses program on unix.
>
>ZTerm writes a line of output in the status bar and the bottom of the window:
>
 I have had many wierd screen problems but not that one. I have found that
it is VERY IMPORTANT that the termcap you are using to define the screen
size exactly match the screen size you are using.

Richard Crispin              Phone:    (519)888-4781
Dept. of Psychology          Bitnet:   psych@watdcs 
University of Waterloo       Internet: psych@watserv1.UWaterloo.ca 
Waterloo, Ont.   Canada   N2L 3G1

derek@leah.Albany.Edu (Derek L. / MacLover) (07/27/90)

From cluther@supernet.UUCP (Clay Luther) come these immortal words:
>Has anyone had the following happen to them while using ZTerm?  I found it
>occurs most often when using some heavy vt100 program, like TPU on a vax or
>occasionally any curses program on unix.

>ZTerm writes a line of output in the status bar and the bottom of the window:

	Yeah, that happens to me a lot, and also, there is a LOT of
"flashing" on the screen when VT10x escape codes are interpreted, and
especially when a clear-screen is hit -- the whole display flickers and
sometimes text is overwritten.  This gets hard on the eyes; in fact it's
why I try to use ZTerm as little as possible.  (Of course, with the
ethernet connection it's a bit easier now...)  :-) 

>Clay Luther

						Derek L.

Un-Mac-related PS  --	Ain't TPU a _great_ editor?  :-)
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