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- From: robt@agsm.unsw.edu.au (Rob Trevor)
- Subject: Re: >>> help - pcsim weirdness <<<
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- Organization: Australian Graduate School of Management
- References: <280@westmx.westmont.edu> <BuDK50.n31@csn.org>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 07:37:57 GMT
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- In article <BuDK50.n31@csn.org>, losburn@teal.csn.org (Lynn Osburn) wrote:
- >
- > >I am talking to the rs/6000 with a vt100 over a serial line , and I'm
- > >wanting to run 'dos' under pcsim. I've got a few programs loaded in
- > >and running properly (e.g. quicken 5.0), but on occasion, when I get
- > >back to the c:\ prompt, the cursor seems to have forgotten about my
- > >command line.
- >
- > My experience (also using vt100 emulation): If you do a CLS, the prompt
- > returns, and will stay until screen is full and would (under native dos)
- > begin to scroll. At that point, the cursor is gone, along with the prompt.
- > CLS restores 'till the next time.
- >
- > We were unable to resolve whether the problem was with pcsim
- > (judged likely) or in the emulation.
- >
-
- Is this just the fact that the vt100 has one less line than the standard
- PC? (On pcsim you use pf1=VIEW to toggle lines 1,25 of display. See info
- explorer for more info.)
-
- Or are you talking about something else?
-
- Rob
-
- PS How do you access ALT key sequences when using the vt100 interface to
- pcsim?
-
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