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| 411.1 | Don's being dense again | BUFFER::VICKERS | If it helps a customer, DO IT | Fri Apr 03 1992 19:04 | 28 |
| Hi Bill,
I am afraid that I am missing exactly what is going on between the
HP95LX and ALL-IN-1. Are you saying that everything works until you go
to the second screen of a mail message and at that time everything goes
to HP's scrolled region in a destructive way?
I am afraid that changing the terminal to have a small screen will not
work as ALL-IN-1 (I suspect it may really be FMS) requires 80X24.
Doing the change after entering ALL-IN-1 will be ineffective as ALL-IN-1
will just set it right back.
Was Mr. Brown suggesting <MODE C, by chance? I am not aware of what
<MODE F might do besides nothing. MODE C places you into 'Command'
mode and may allow you to be a 'partial VT100'. You can easily try
this via the US ST menu options.
Mr. Brown was CLOSE to the development of the Charlotte Package as he
was in Sales in Charlotte at the time. He was most certainly NOT one
of the original developers in any way. I will refrain from further
comment but suffice that I hold him in the same level of esteem as
he deserves.
Bill, I never had nightmares from you. If Digital had more people like
you helping customers we wouldn't be going out of business.
Keep the faith,
don
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| 411.2 | MOre explanation, and another possibility? | NOLE2::KIMBEL | Workstations are our business... | Fri Apr 03 1992 23:15 | 27 |
| Thanks for the kind comments, Don. I hope we aren't both part of a
vanishing breed! Pendulums have to swing back, unless they fly off the
pivot.
When the first of the message comes on the screen I am at the top left
of the first screen. The message scrolls over and down to the bottom
right quadrant of the screen, and I see the right end of the message in
the scrolling region, requesting a return or exit.
I press the return key and the next full screen of info flashes by in
the last line of the screen, resulting in total unintelligibility and a
headache, if you do it often. Somehow the VT100 emulation in the HP
can't handle the scrolling region. Seems like I recall a phrase from
the dark past: "This really sucks dirty swamp water!" (or was that
sewer water?, Oh well, you get my point... I can't use this!).
Using the ANSI setting, I get the message that the terminal isn't
identified, and then I shift into hardcopy mode. Which brings up
another potential... Is there a way to set the hardcopy mode to wrap at
40?
Clutching at straws...
Bill
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| 411.3 | Straws suck, too | BUFFER::VICKERS | If it helps a customer, DO IT | Sat Apr 04 1992 02:21 | 14 |
| Bill,
Are you able to control your environment from DCL? Another approach
that you could use would:
$ SET TERMINAL/WIDTH=40/WRAP/PAGE=16
$ ALLIN1/TERMINAL=HARD
I suspect that the /PAGE=16 will have no effect since ALL-IN-1 doesn't
'page' in HARDCOPY mode. I tried the above and it does work but, of
course, the output can be confusing and ugly (sort of like me).
Hang in there,
don
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| 411.4 | How about this from ALL-IN-1? | NOLE2::KIMBEL | Workstations are our business... | Mon Apr 06 1992 16:27 | 10 |
| Don,
Would a UDK like the following work?
UDK to DCL
$set term/wid=40/wrap/page=16
$ALLIN1/TERMINAL=HARD/REENTER
BK
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| 411.5 | Assuming you're captive you'll need two files | BUFFER::VICKERS | If it helps a customer, DO IT | Mon Apr 06 1992 20:01 | 19 |
| Bill,
I am gathering that you are privileged to enter ALL-IN-1 directly and
that you do not have DCL access? This seems rather rude to me but I
understand that this approach seems wide spread within Digital systems.
I would hope that Mr. Sherman could help make this a bit easier for you
to accomplish your work.
If my assumption is correct then you will have to first create a UDP
which does the following:
.FU CLEAR
.FU COMMAND SMALL_SCREEN
and create SMALL_SCREEN.COM in your ALL-IN-1 directory which contains
the two lines of DCL you have in .4.
I hope this helps,
don
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