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- From: terry@thisbe.Eng.Sandy.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert)
- Subject: Re: com port and more
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.174401.9436@gateway.novell.com>
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:44:01 GMT
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- In article <sedU9q600WAtMJ3WVW@andrew.cmu.edu> "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >I just installed 386bsd last night. Anyway, here are a few of my
- >questions that have popped up early:
- > 1) I have a terminal on com1 (telix running vt100), and com2 (z29 in
- >ansi mode). On the PC running telix, whenever I run an application that
- >uses curses (vi) it locks the terminal. If I drop dtr 4 times I will
- >eventully kill vi and get a prompt back, but I was wondering what could
- >be wrong here. The terminal is set up as std.9600 in /etc/ttys.
- >According to telix I am at 9600,e,7,1,xon/xoff,no cts/rts though. I
- >haven't tried this with another terminal package yet.
-
- Telix is brain damaged... or at least it doesn't quite emulate the terminal
- it says it's emulating.
-
- When "vi" (really "elVIs") starts up, it "sizes" the screen in the same
- way that the X command "resize" does: by addresing the cursor to a
- ridiculously large location (usually 999 999). On a normal ANSI compliant
- terminal, this will locate the cursor in the lower right hand corner of the
- screen, unless you are unfortunate enoug to have > 999 character cells in
- either direction. Telix does not do this. You may want to use VTERM,
- TERM, TinyTERM, VTKermit, or something else which works (I know these 4
- and the console driver and the xterm program do). That Telix doesn't at
- least trap the "move cursor to invalid location" and locks up insteas is
- real bad. It may actually do this, but not relocate the cursor to the
- lower right hand corner... if this is the case, issuing the move to 999 999
- after homing the curser will also result in what "elVIs" believes is a 0x0
- screen, which will also seem to "lock up", since none of the messages can
- be printed. In either case, you want to run something other than Telix.
-
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
-
- ---
- Disclaimer: Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of
- my present or previous employers.
-