Wirt Atmar wrote:

> Having played with Linux for a couple of hours now, and thus by definition, a
> guru, tab sets don't seem to be done that way. Although terminal type
> negotiation (option 24) is completed before the login prompt appears, as is
> standard, the tab set routine doesn't seem to be called until some program is
> invoked sometime later. In the QCTerm trace that I've included below, that
> didn't occur until HP-Eloquence was invoked, as you can in the attached trace.

Tabs are largely related to the curses library, where much strangeness
is seen between the 3000/9000 (with most any emulator) and get a bit
more strange with QCTerm in the 3000/9000 environment.  For the best
example of this, use a non-standard terminal screen layout, e.g., 96
columns and 48 rows.  Reflection on the 9000 behaves correctly (the
curses initialization apparently figures this out and presents the
proper status response) while QCTerm does not.  Neither work correctly
on the 3000.  You will see this in vi, more, patchix, etc.

Jeff

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