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- From: luca@dedalo.unipg.it (Luca Priorelli)
- Subject: Re: TE/2 vt100 emulation problem
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.100654.148193@ipgaix.unipg.it>
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- Organization: Universita' di Perugia
- References: <9309@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> <1992Nov16.014807.1726@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> <1992Nov17.214304.6169@grebyn.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 10:06:54 GMT
- Lines: 59
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- mfraioli@grebyn.com (Marc Fraioli) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Nov16.014807.1726@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> kbass@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ken Bass) writes:
- >>In article <9309@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum) writes:
- >>>Until last week, I was running Procomm's vt100 emulation under MSDOS
- >>>across a 2400 baud modem. This week it's TE/2's vt100 emulation under
- >>>OS/2 across a v.32bis modem. Everything works as advertised, except for
- >>>a serious problem with screen redraws in vi. Can anyone help?
- >>>
- >>>The specifics are that parts of the screen are often (but not always)
- >>>blacked out as I move across them (either with cursor movement or when
- >>>entering text). The area affected seems to be from the left margin to a
- >>>bit more than halfway across the screen. Sometimes when I enter text,
- >>>each character is displayed briefly and then blacked out; other times
- >>>several characters linger briefly and are then all blacked out at once.
- >>>This doesn't happen every time I use vi, but it's very frequent. It
- >>>usually occurs when I am editing text; if I am appending new text at
- >>>the end of a document, everything works smoothly.
- >>>
- >>>In all cases, the characters are being transmitted properly; if I escape
- >>>into control mode and repaint the screen explicitly with control-L, they
- >>>all reappear where they belong. Needless to say, escaping into control
- >>>mode and repainting the screen using control-L is not the way vi is
- >>>supposed to work.
- >>>
- >>>I have "redraw" set in vi and I can't find any other settings to
- >>>twiddle. The mainframe I'm talking to is running Ultrix 4.2. I'm using
- >>>the vt100-nam termcap setting. I can't prove that the problem is with
- >>>vi, rather than with the termcap settings in general.
- >>>
- >>>I like TE/2 in general, but I use vi constantly and the problem is so
- >>>frequent as to be a serious impediment to getting my work done. Any
- >>>suggestions?
- >>>
- >>>Thanks,
- >>>
- >>>David
- >>>
- >>>--
- >>>Professor David J. Birnbaum djbpitt+@pitt.edu [Internet]
- >>>The Royal York Apartments, #802 djbpitt@pittvms [Bitnet]
- >>>3955 Bigelow Boulevard voice: 1-412-687-4653
- >>>Pittsburgh, PA 15123 USA fax: 1-412-624-9714
- >>
- >>I have the same problem using Telix for DOS under OS/2. I am also using
- >>Ultrix 4.1. I dont know what the answer is.
- >>
- >I see the same problem with TE/2 connecting to an Ultrix 3.0 machine.
- >It also sometimes loses my linefeeds, so I wind up typing a line over
- >the previous line. However, as you say, if I hit CTRL-L, everything is
- >there.
- >--
- >Marc Fraioli
- >mfraioli@grebyn.com (So I'm a minimalist...)
-
- Not only. I loose the cursor and I can't do anything to have it back even
- when a leave vi.
-
- Luca Priorelli
-