Aminn-ua.160 net.bugs.4bsd utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnss!ihps3!stolaf!minn-ua!abh Sat Apr 17 16:36:09 1982 vt100 non-support At our site, we have two VAX 11/780s; one runs VAX/VMS, the other runs VM/UNIX. Since the most commonly used editor on VMS, EDT, requires a VT-100, we have a number of VT-100 terminals. Unfortunately, termcap and the applications which use it do not seem to support VT-100s very well. In particular: 1) Worms does not call termcap properly to get the time delays expanded. Thus, a series of 5's and 2's remains on the screen. 2) The al and dl capabilities in the vt100 termcap entry contain %2's. In order to delete or insert a line on the VT-100, it is necessary to change the scroll region and scroll as appropriate. To change the scrolling region, a line number is required. However, there is nothing in the termcap documentation that implies that the al and dl capabilities accept a line number as a parameter. As a result, none of the programs using these capabilities work on the VT-100. In particular, vi is unusable. 3) The cs capability is not implemented in any program that I can locate. If it were implemented, this would eliminate the need to fix problem number 2 above. Has anyone else encountered similar problems with the VT-100? Does anyone have any solutions? Andy Hastings pur-ee!minn-ua!abh or ihnss!ihps3!stolaf!minn-ua!abh ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.