[Info-vax] Last Call for (New) DEC VT Terminals

[Scott Dorsey]

Johnny Billquist  <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>
>For me, the most annoying PuTTY bug is how it behaves when writing and 
>backspacing at column 80. If you write at column 80 without automatic 
>wrapping, the character appears at column 80, and the cursor remains at 
>column 80. If you then backspace on a real VT100, your cursor will move 
>back to column 79. In PuTTY, the cursor remains at column 80, because 
>the PuTTY developers prefer this behavior, even though it is 
>incompatible. I talked with them many years ago about this, but they 
>refused to change their code. So I have a program that I've written, 
>which behaves correctly on a real terminal, but will exhibit a broken 
>behavior in PuTTY.

PuTTY follows the ansi behaviour, the vt100 does not.   
--scott

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