[Info-vax] Real Usenet clients, was: Re: backups and compaction or nocompaction might be better

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2013-02-02 06:39, AEF wrote:
> On Jan 31, 5:53 pm, David Froble <da... at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>> On 2013-01-31 18:25:53 +0000, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply said:
>>>> yes i hav sir but normally i write in the oldskool style because it is
>>>> easier to read and gives U the impression that i have some minimal
>>>> standard of education but of course if it is 2hard4u then dont bother as
>>>> im sure some fancy cloud computing stuff can decode ur linez
>>
>> Even a VT terminal will wrap long lines, unless you tell it not to do so.
>
> I wish it could be set to do so when booting! The stupid VT would
> always go back to nowrap for booting and there was always at least one
> long line that would be truncated before I could get it into wrap
> mode. Maybe I found a way to fix it. I don't remember -- it's been so
> long.

That don't parse.
The VT terminal will go back to whatever is saved in NV RAM at power up, 
or at hard reset. There is no "booting".
I have, however, experienced some Unix systems who insist on sending the 
escape sequence to turn off wrapping in the VT terminal as a part of 
their booting. Very unhelpful, if you ask me, but I can hardly blame the 
terminal for that...

	Johnny