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In article <285@pan.UUCP> jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson) writes:
>What could be worse than a Televideo?  Perhaps a newer Televideo?  One of
>my customers recently ended up with a couple of Televideo 955 terminals.
>It really wasn't his fault...

	It seems that there is more than one ype of TeleVideo 950.  I have
(frequent) discussions with people who hat them because they are impossible
to use.  All I can reply with is that the 4 I have used at work and the 2 I
have at home have the crispest, most stable display I have seen on a terminal.
This leads me to believe that TVI made a significant change in their line
at some point.

	I have a 955 at work now.  I do not like the display as much as my old
950 but the larger screen is kind of nice.  It took me about an hour to develop
a new termcap that worked in 955 native mode.  The magic cookie is completely
gone in this mode.  Given the screen jitter and flashes, I am torn between
going back to the 950 and living with magic cookies and staying with the 955.

>They asked me to set it up and write termcap descriptions for them.  When I
>read the manual, I was dumbfounded.  I vaguely recalled hearing or reading
>somewhere that Televideo had finally gotten away from the magic cookie
>glitch.  Well, if this is it, they didn't quite get away from it.

	They have.

>The 955 has two attribute modes, which Televideo boldly calls 'embedded'
>and 'non-embedded'.  The embedded mode is just what you expect, attributes
>have magic cookies, like the 950, did, and the 925, and the 912...  But the
>non-embedded mode has a very long description, which boils down to when you
>send the set-attribute sequence, something magic happens inside the terminal
>which allows you to write the next - *only* the next - character on the same
>screen location you were at when you sent set attribute.  After that next
>character, whatever it was, the terminal reverts to traditional Televideo
>behavior; if at any later time you write any character to that screen
>location, you lose the attribute!  What could this mode possibly be called?
>Perhaps, 'magic magic cookie'?  Or 'voodoo cookie'?


	Perhaps you are confused?

	I would include a termcap but mine is highly customized for a specific
curses which has field conflicts with BSD 4.3.

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