In <[email protected]>,
on 11/10/2011
at 07:23 AM, Juergen Keller <[email protected]>
said:
>I wonder what the TERMINAL-command is for.
It saves the information for use by VTIOC and applications.
>When I change SCRSIZE I can see that something changes but not for
>the application issuing some TPUTs
It's the responsibility of the application to query the screen size
before doing full-screen I/O. If the application only uses line mode
then VTIOC will handle the screen geometry automatically.
>(I think that are TPUTs).
TPUT is certainly the most common interface to VTIOC.
>I traced the data send to the screen and there where only the
>typical 2-byte-fields giving the position.
Yes, and the application needs the screen width in order to convert
row/column to buffer address.
>Yes we can change the application program but its a very old one and
>I think noone will do that.
Then run it in an 80-wide screen.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
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