Re: A Question About the Infamous VT100 Line Wrap Bug

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From: scott
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1987 05:49

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In article <1504@blia.BLI.COM> forrest@blia.BLI.COM (Jon Forrest) writes:
>Could someone summarize the bug with vt100 terminals having
>to do with line wrapping. I recall it has something to do with
>what happens when a certain character appears in column 79 (80?).
>
>Thanks,
>Jon Forrest

I'm not sure why this happens, but I ran into this when I started my current
job and got my hands on a REAL VT100.  However, the fix I found for this,
which works on the VAX in my office running 4.1bsd (no flames on 4.1 please,
I have been waving the 4.3 banner since I got the license to be signed).
I configure the terminal to line-wrap and set the termcap entry that the
terminal does not have hard margins (I don't remember the code off hand).
It seems to work, for me at least :-) !

Scott Barman
philabs!tg!scott

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Subject: Re: A Question About the Infamous VT100 Line Wrap Bug
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Date: Sat, 24-Jan-87 00:49:15 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 24 00:49:15 1987
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