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- Path: sparky!uunet!grebyn!daily!mfraioli
- From: mfraioli@grebyn.com (Marc Fraioli)
- Subject: Re: TE/2 vt100 emulation problem
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.214304.6169@grebyn.com>
- Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
- References: <9309@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> <1992Nov16.014807.1726@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:43:04 GMT
- Lines: 52
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- In article <1992Nov16.014807.1726@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> kbass@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ken Bass) writes:
- >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.
- >
- I see the same problem with TE/2 connecting to an Ultrix 3.0 machine.
- It also sometimes loses my linefeeds, so I wind up typing a line over
- the previous line. However, as you say, if I hit CTRL-L, everything is
- there.
- --
- Marc Fraioli
- mfraioli@grebyn.com (So I'm a minimalist...)
-