[Info-vax] unalphabetical help

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In article <kc988l$4g1$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote 2013-01-05 13:51:
>> In article <kc93mu$qnr$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>>> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote 2013-01-05 01:47:
>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I do not know what that is and I have no idea about how to test
>>> it or knowing if it they are "right" or not. There is an update
>>> available to Reflection 14.1, I guess there are rel.notes.
>>
>> Sorry, that should have read DECDWL.  If they couldn't get DECSWL right,
>> then they truly are hopeless.  Put the following into a command file and
>> execute it.
>>
>> $ ESC[0,8]=%x1B
>> $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT "''ESC'#6 This is DECDWL line of text"
>> $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT "''ESC'#3 This is DECDHL line of text"
>> $ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT "''ESC'#4 This is DECDHL line of text"
>>
>> Try it on a real VT or in a DECterm if you don't see it rendered as line
>> characters twice as wide (DECDWL-DEC Double Wide Line) and twice as wide
>> and high (DECDHL-DEC Double High Line).
>>
>
>Works in both the old PuTTY (0.58) and my Refl 14.0.

It used to show normal width characters in some odd color for DECDWL and two
separate lines in some other odd color for DECDHL when using Reflection.  I
have never had any success using PuTTY.  I get a terminal window chock full
of ...............  Pretty useless.


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