[Info-vax] unalphabetical help

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Fri Jan 4 19:47:33 EST 2013


In article <kc7pqd$j5s$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote 2013-01-04 21:11:
>> In article <kc6ol2$f50$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>>> Johnny Billquist wrote 2013-01-04 14:47:
>>>> On 2013-01-04 13:37, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>>>>> In article <nospam-1FE165.12192104012013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
>>>>> <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> You are not kidding.  My first experience with it was with UCX 3.n, and
>>>>>> the help would scroll off the top of a VT screen.
>>>>>
>>>>> But *that* must be a problem of the way past, right?
>>>>> Does anyone use a terminal tool/emulator without
>>>>> easy scrollback of a large screen buffer today ?
>>>>
>>>> How about anyone who uses a real terminal instead of a buggy emulator? :-)
>>>>
>>>>       Johnny
>>>>
>>>
>>> I only use non-buggy emulators. Or at least emulators where
>>> any bugs are non-visible. And yes, I did see you smiley... :-)
>>
>> Can you name one???
>>
>
>I uses both PyTTY and Refection 14 and neither has any (to me)
>visible bugs that disturbes me or my work. Maybe if you run
>some VT-term validation script you'd see something, but that
>is not a requirement from my customer, so it's not part of
>my work.

Probably not but if you were going to market a product as a faithful VT
terminal emulation, then it should faithfully emulate a VT terminal.  I
haven't seen that in several issues I've had to deal with WRT customers
that are running Reflection.

Has 14 managed to get DECSWL and or DECDHL right yet?

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