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Aucbvax.5895 fa.info-vax utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax Thu Jan 21 16:22:20 1982 Re: UNIX vs. VMS >From Samuelson@SANDIA Thu Jan 21 15:35:27 1982 You missed the point. PASSALL is ONLY ONE of the possible choices which MAY be correct for a particular instance. A more general problem is "What should be done right now with a control-<BLARGH> for this particular user on this particular terminal type". ie: should a form-feed be sent as a true form feed, as "n" line feeds, as "m-n" line feeds (useful for dumb terminals with actual forms), or should some more complex function be done such as... wait for the user to send some special character or send some special sequence to clear the screen, including waiting both before and/or after. (before so it can be read before the screen is cleared, after so the screen can settle back down [ie: tektronix] before sending more text). Depending on PERSONAL preference AND the particular TERMINAL TYPE, make some decision about what would be NICE for the user. For those terminals which clear when sent a form-feed it is clearly NOT correct to send a form-feed with no delay, but for a hard-copy terminal which understands form-feed it may be exactly what is needed.

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