[Info-vax] VTxxx/VMS term driver: bug or feature?

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Tue Jul 5 13:00:09 EDT 2011


On 2011-07-05 18.52, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article<00AB1E86.6A8A32EC at SendSpamHere.ORG>,   VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
>>
>> When using real VT terminals, the result with the /WRAP and no local wrap
>> shows that the terminal driver doesn't have knowledge of where the string
>> of digits begins.
>
>     I'm wondering if they've all got heritage xterm code, or some other
>     heritage; or if they've all just emulated other emulators.  At least
>     most don't emulate Hilgraeve's early HyperTerminal, which MS still
>     insists on shipping.

They are not using the xterm codebase atleast. I know because the xterm 
is actually getting a lot of things right that almost all other 
emulators still get wrong.

So, were they only to use the xterm codebase, the emulators would at 
least be 100 times better than they are.

	Johnny



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