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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!utah-morgan!hellgate.utah.edu!cc.usu.edu!ivie 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 Lines: 17 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