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From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
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Subject: Re: emacs on the VAX???
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Date: 16 Jul 89 21:37:37 GMT
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In-reply-to: JONES@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu's message of 16 Jul 89 06:51:41 GMT

In article  JONES@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu (Bob Jones [VAX-Man] Home: (614)447-0214) writes:

>  As you might know, EDT in VMS does not support non-ANSI terminals because
>  it does not access TERMTABLE.EXE. Does anyone know if emacs does? That is,
>  will emacs running under VMS [v 4.7] on a VAX 8650 understand non-ANSI type 
>  terminals?  If it uses SMG$ routines, it probably will.

SMG$ and TERMTABLE.EXE won't help, they are *VERY* limited in the
support of non-ANSI terminals.  Emacs doesn't use SMG$ routines nor
TERMTABLE.EXE. It uses a different mechanism (termcap) to parametrize
terminal control. It can and will understand all kinds of terminals,
see EMACS_LIBRARY:[ETC]TERMCAP.DAT or type C-h i and select the menu
entry for termcap.
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