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- From: houseman@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (Carl Houseman)
- Subject: Re: Print symbiont interpretation of PASTHRU
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.144032.8166@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- References: <1993Jan25.031308.10158@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1993Jan26.075806.1@v7.vitro.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:40:32 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.075806.1@v7.vitro.com> vaxs09@v7.vitro.com writes:
- >Since an earlier e-mail reply may not have gone through and since I have
- >new information, I'll post this one.
-
- Thanks John. I'm afraid I did see your e-mail but about that time things
- got hectic and acknowledging it got lost in the two foot stack of things
- on my desk.
-
- >It's not a bug. TT2$M_PASTHRU controls how characters are formatted when
- >a QIO request is issued. It does not control whether an application program
- >(the print symbiont in this case) reformats text before issuing the QIO.
- >Whether such reformatting is desireable is a separate issue.
- >
- >I couldn't find the behavior documented in the grey wall either. Fortunately
- >we still have pieces of the orange wall. :-) In sections 5.5.5 and 5.5.9 of
- >the VMS 4.2 release notes, two cases in which the symbiont will expand
- >tabs are documented. Briefly, it will expand tabs when /TAB is not
- >specified on the print device (SET PRINTER /NOTAB or SET TERMINAL /NOTAB).
- >It will also expand tabs when the form has a non-zero left margin.
- >
- >I found the /TAB behavior re-documented in the 4.4 notes (3.2.18.2) and
- >the 4.7 notes (3.2.15.6).
- >
- >IMHO, the behavior is unexpected but not unreasonable.
-
- I agree. The thought of the symbiont self-expanding the tabs didn't cross
- my mind (though it should have). I thought they were diddling with the
- /NOPERMANENT terminal characteristics. Anyway I told CSC where their answer
- was and closed the call.
-
- > John Briggs vaxs09@v7.vitro.com
-
- Carl Houseman
- houseman@hopper.acs.virginia.edu
-