[Info-vax] How to Avoid Old Software, Old Bugs?

[Michael Moroney]

koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:

>In article <qqncdc$9oi$1 at pcls7.std.com>, moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) writes:
>> 
>> One thing that bugs me is that on a real VTxxx or DECterm window, the control
>> sequence corresponding to/output by "SET TERMINAL/WIDTH=132" or "/WIDTH=80"
>> doesn't work.  What actually bugs me is that it DID work long ago but now it
>> doesn't and I can't figure out how to do so.  I don't know if I broke something
>> or Apple did with some upgrade.

>   Which terminal emulator are you using?  I gave up on MacOS terminal
>   quite some time ago.  Been using iTerm, then iTerm2.  Not the best
>   VT emulation, but I'm using it with EVE right now.

It's iTerm2.  From DCL, does alternating $ SET TERMINAL/WIDTH=132 followed by
$ SET TERMINAL/WIDTH=80 actually change the width of the windows?

There is a setting that seems to enable programmable resizing but it doesn't
do anything.  I'll look things up if needed.