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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

4050.0. "ATALK III questions.." by OTIGER::R_CURTIS (There is madness to my method..) Fri Aug 24 1990 14:44

    Does anyone out there use ATALK III with the VT100 emulation ? I use it
    and what I see is the line drawing doesn't seem to work. I get various
    letters instead of the horizontal and vertical lines. Reverse video
    works and I know the double height/width is not supported. I'm running
    it from my A590 on an A500 with 2 meg. I looked in the book for help
    and it seems rather vague to me, plus I called Oxxi and whoever I
    talked to didn't seem all that hip on the VT100 feature. Is there a
    font setup or something I need to change ? I used  the supplied HD
    install procedure to build it onto the hard drive. There was something
    about the G0/G1 escape sequence to enable the different roms, but it is
    not clear how to get ATALK to understand it.
    
    I was also wondering if anyone using ATALK III uses something other
    than VT100 emulation to dial up VAX systems, and what problems thay
    have, if any. Most of the systems I dial into seem to be VAXen, so I
    like the VT100 feature.
    
    Thanks for any responses....Ray
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4050.1Missing font = my guessHPSCAD::GATULISFrank Gatulis 297-6770Fri Aug 24 1990 15:0919
    
    I've mentioned this somewhere else but I don't know where so here goes.
    
    I think you're missing a font.  Some versions of ATalk (maybe all) had
    a bug in the HD installation procedure which didn't copy over the 
    entire subdirectory structure.  If this is the case you can simply 
    copy them yourself (then re-boot or do a FIXFONT).  For VT100 emulation
    you only need the fonts whose names begin "VT100".
    
    As for the other question, I've never tried any other emulation modes
    dialing into DEC.   I wish they did VT220 emulation, but don't, and
    have no plans to do so.
    
    If you finally get fed up with the fact that the Backspace key doesn't
    work the way you'd like, send me some mail.  I have a kludge which
    will fix it.
    
    Frank