From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 12 22:03:41 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id WAA26755 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 22:03:41 -0800 Received: from UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU (root@UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU [129.7.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA26747 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 22:03:33 -0800 Received: from Taronga.COM by UUCP-GW.CC.UH.EDU with UUCP id AA09773 (5.67a/IDA-1.5); Thu, 12 Jan 1995 23:41:55 -0600 Received: by bonkers.taronga.com (smail2.5p) id AA00969; 12 Jan 95 22:28:30 CST (Thu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bonkers.taronga.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA00966; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 22:28:29 -0600 Message-Id: <199501130428.WAA00966@bonkers.taronga.com> X-Authentication-Warning: bonkers.taronga.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Small syscons change In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Jan 95 20:54:50 MST." <9501130354.AA08433@cs.weber.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.4.1 7/21/94 Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 22:28:29 -0600 From: Peter da Silva Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > DEC's cute but bizzarre line wrap behaviour strikes again. > > You wouldn't believe what I had to do to get it to work right when emulating > > the VT100 on other terminals... > Where'd you do your work? I did it in-house so people could use VMS software on non-DEC terminals. It was tested to work (defined as being usable, not crashing) even with a televideo terminal versus the VT100 torture test. I never used Term, but compared to Procomm we were way ahead. DEC sold our people on their SMG library, then when the systems were delivered we found that nothing important actually used SMG, so I pulled the VT100 code out of a shareware terminal emulator I did back in '82 and made it a bit more robust. Some of the "genuine" vt100 behaviour was only documented as "EDT on RSX-11/M generates this sequence and it does this"... I would swear DEC engineers were *using* bugs in the implementation. The program's cute. It's a filter that converts VT100 to whatever your termcap entry is, subject to what it can figure out from your termcap. More company-owned software though. I can't believe what they have it on the books for, considering it was an emergency hack.