At 02:33 PM 10/25/2006, James B. Byrne wrote:


>But I am not connecting to the HP3000 via puTTY but rather by FREEVT3K
>which  is invoked on a Linux box inside the corporate firewall. It is the
>Linux box which is serving the puTTY SSH connection.  The HP3000 is
>connected to the Linux session via NS/VT using FREEVT3K.  The terminal
>type that FREEVT3K seems to emulate is a VT102-24, at least that is what
>POWERHOUSE QUICK thinks it is and as the terminal line drawing set is
>properly displayed on the puTTY session I infer that QUICK is getting it
>right.
>
>My understanding is that QEDIT supports a SCREEN mode that allows visual
>editing on VT100 style terminals without HP blockmode support and visual
>editing in QEDIT is what I desire.  I gave up trying to get vi on the HP
>to create usable MPE files a long time ago.

You are partially correct Qedit for HP-UX supports the vt100 terminal
interface thru the command set vis screen on. This is not available in
the HP 3000 version.

/set vis screen on
/vi
Open [Qeditscr]:
Open Scratch File
Set Vis Screen only supported on HP-UX
/
Sincerely,


Neil Armstrong
Robelle



>So the two questions are:  Does QEDIT 5.1 support non-blockmode visual
>editing on VT100 style terminals and, if so, how do you tell QEDIT that
>this is indeed the type of terminal you are using?
>
>Regards,
>
>
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