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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/28/2015 9:14 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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?

ECMA-48 / ANSI X3.64 / ISO 6429 is available here:

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Ecma-048.pdf

Arne