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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-06-29 02:15, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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.

So maybe then PuTTY should not claim to be VT100 compatible?

But to be honest, I don't know if I've ever seen/read the ANSI standard 
on this. Do you have an URL for that document, so I can read what ANSI 
is saying?

	Johnny

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