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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <mmq2nl$r47$1 at panix2.panix.com>, kludge at panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:
> 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

   Which would be fine if you told PuTTY to run 100% ANSI compatable,
   but is not when you tell it to emulate a VT100.