Odd happenings in RT-11

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From: William Thomas Daugustine
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 1990 23:51

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I just had a strage session with RT-11 on my Pro-350...

In my STARTX.COM startup procedure, one of the commands I have is:

SETUP TERM,VT100,DARK,JUMP,BLINK,UNDERLINE

Which will set the terminal for VT100 emulation, a dark screen with bright
letters, jumping scroll, blinking underline cursor... 

Anyways. It started to freak out on the UNDERLINE, and kept responding
with a ?SETUP-F-Invalid setup for UNDERLINE (or a similar message).
Odd, as Ive been using this setup for quite some time now...

Well, to make matters even worse, I tried a SETUP TERM HELP for 
laughs, and all the settings listed were settings Ive never seen before!
It even had some settings for hardcopy terminals... Never before have I
seen these!!

I tried a BOOT DW0: and it hang the machine... Power down, and back to 
normal... Now SETUP TERM UNDERSCORE works. What happened?!

PS: Ive only got RT-11 v5 (XM of course) on the machine. v4 and below
dont work on the Pro.

Billy D'Augustine

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Subject: Odd happenings in RT-11
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