[Info-vax] unalphabetical help

VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG
Wed Jan 9 17:25:03 EST 2013


In article <kcko7s$vel$1 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
>In article <00ACD20D.3C953900 at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman- 
>@SendSpamHere.ORG writes: 
>
>> In article <kckh95$q8l$1 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
>> >In article <00ACD0FE.C5692AAB at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman- 
>> >@SendSpamHere.ORG writes: 
>> >
>> >> Anyway, it fails VTTEST miserably on the very first test.  You can see for
>> >> yourself if you have VTTEST ('twas available on the freeware CDs and can be
>> >> had from the DECUSlib.com site) or you could telnet to twenty-four dot one-
>> >> hundred eighty-seven dot two-hundred thirteen dot twenty-eight (also known
>> >> as the 'great-escape' in my domain).  Login using username 'VTTEST' and you
>> >> can run through the VTTEST suit test. 
>> >
>> >Interesting.  I have the default white text on grey background, which is
>> >referred to as light background with dark text.  Maybe "normal" and
>> >"reverse" would be better terms here. 
>> 
>> That's not the failure.  Run the first test.
>
>I didn't mean to imply that it was.  I ran (most of) the tests from a 
>DECterm.  The first test looks OK.

DECterm is fine.  That should help you to know what proper results should
look like when/if you use VTTEST with any terminal emulation.

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