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From: ivie@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Vt52 problem with vi on NetBSD 0.9
Message-ID: <1993Sep22.095753.881@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 22 Sep 93 09:57:53 MDT
References: <1993Sep22.003221.23217@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
Organization: Utah State University
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In article <1993Sep22.003221.23217@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>, douc@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (D. Doucet) writes:
>  0.8
> had no trouble talking to my vt52 terminal through com0. 0.9
> however, has problems when I try to run programs like vi or more
> that use escape characters and what not. After these commands, I
> get a bunch of reverse, block unprintables and so on.

That's odd. My VT52s are incapable of doing stuff like reverse video. Maybe
I misunderstood what you said...

You might look in some news archives. There was some discussion a while ago
(i think in the .bugs group) about vi and more doing strange things to 
the terminal settings; changing from 8 bits & no parity to 7 bits & even
parity type of stuff.

Roger "I have 2 VT52s left" Ivie
ivie@cc.usu.edu