[Info-vax] Some questions on software for VMS 7.3 VAX

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-01-25 16:48, lists at openmailbox.org wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:15:16 +0100
> Johnny Billquist via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:
>
>> Why are you having the terminal width encoded into the terminal type?
>> The terminal type is independent of the width. A terminal like "vt100",
>> "vt200", "vt220", "vt400", and so on would be expected.
>> Something like "vt100-80" is just weird.
>
> It is set by SET TERM/INQ which I have in my login.com as suggested by the
> guys here way back when I started using VMS. If I don't use that then VMS
> doesn't know what size terminal I have and all kinds of paged output
> doesn't work properly.

I doubt the SET TERM/INQ does that, as it sets a terminal type as VMS 
understands them, and that will not have any encoded terminal width in 
the name. The terminal type value in VMS is not a string, but a coded 
value (see what SHOW TERMINAL says). Maybe you have some logical name, 
or some other thing that is playing with you here as well?

	Johnny

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