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- From: kbass@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ken Bass)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: TE/2 vt100 emulation problem
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.014807.1726@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 01:48:07 GMT
- References: <9309@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
- Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
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- In article <9309@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum) writes:
- >Until last week, I was running Procomm's vt100 emulation under MSDOS
- >across a 2400 baud modem. This week it's TE/2's vt100 emulation under
- >OS/2 across a v.32bis modem. Everything works as advertised, except for
- >a serious problem with screen redraws in vi. Can anyone help?
- >
- >The specifics are that parts of the screen are often (but not always)
- >blacked out as I move across them (either with cursor movement or when
- >entering text). The area affected seems to be from the left margin to a
- >bit more than halfway across the screen. Sometimes when I enter text,
- >each character is displayed briefly and then blacked out; other times
- >several characters linger briefly and are then all blacked out at once.
- >This doesn't happen every time I use vi, but it's very frequent. It
- >usually occurs when I am editing text; if I am appending new text at
- >the end of a document, everything works smoothly.
- >
- >In all cases, the characters are being transmitted properly; if I escape
- >into control mode and repaint the screen explicitly with control-L, they
- >all reappear where they belong. Needless to say, escaping into control
- >mode and repainting the screen using control-L is not the way vi is
- >supposed to work.
- >
- >I have "redraw" set in vi and I can't find any other settings to
- >twiddle. The mainframe I'm talking to is running Ultrix 4.2. I'm using
- >the vt100-nam termcap setting. I can't prove that the problem is with
- >vi, rather than with the termcap settings in general.
- >
- >I like TE/2 in general, but I use vi constantly and the problem is so
- >frequent as to be a serious impediment to getting my work done. Any
- >suggestions?
- >
- >Thanks,
- >
- >David
- >
- >--
- >Professor David J. Birnbaum djbpitt+@pitt.edu [Internet]
- >The Royal York Apartments, #802 djbpitt@pittvms [Bitnet]
- >3955 Bigelow Boulevard voice: 1-412-687-4653
- >Pittsburgh, PA 15123 USA fax: 1-412-624-9714
-
- I have the same problem using Telix for DOS under OS/2. I am also using
- Ultrix 4.1. I dont know what the answer is.
-
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