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- Depending on the method you have used to connect to the Directory Service,
- the system may or may not know what sort of terminal (or terminal
- emulation) you are using. If information about your terminal type is
- not available to the program when you connect initially - this will be
- the case if you connect using a PAD - the system will assume that you are
- using a standard sized screen of 24 rows of 80 columns.
-
- The program will work quite adequately with these default settings. There
- is, however, some benefit in providing information to the system about the
- type of terminal you are using, as the program attempts to use
- "inverse-video" for displaying its prompts.
-
- The SETTINGS help screen allows you to enter or adjust your terminal type
- as well as some of the values associated with your terminal. This help
- screen displays the current settings of certain variables. This information
- might look as below:
-
- VARIABLE VALUE DESCRIPTION
- NAME
- termtype vt100 The user's terminal type
- invvideo on Prompts in inverse video if possible
- cols 80 The width of the user's screen in columns
- lines 24 The depth of the user's screen in lines
-
- Having displayed the information, you will be asked if you wish to modify
- any of the settings, thus:
-
- Do you want to change any settings (y/n) ?
-
- If you respond with a y, you will then be prompted in turn for the name
- of the variable you wish to modify, and the value you wish the variable
- to take. The following dialogue would allow you to adjust the terminal type
- to vt220.
-
- Do you want to change any settings (y/n) ? y
- Enter name of variable you wish to modify: termtype
- Enter value of variable: vt220
-
- A few notes to help you along:
-
- Entering <CR> on its own anywhere will default to no change.
-
- You only have to enter as many characters of the variable name as are
- sufficient to disambiguate it from other variables - in all the cases above,
- a single letter suffices!
-
- Note that adjusting the terminal type will adjust the size of screen
- variables automatically to the standard values for that terminal type.
- This may do the wrong thing in the case of variable sized terminal
- emulations such as "xterm".
-
- If you find that the terminal emulation is not behaving correctly - this
- is not uncommon - try resetting the terminal type to "dumb" for a basic
- service.
-
- invvideo is a boolean variable, and takes values "on" and "off"
-
-