> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think maybe the teminal handler is too smart for it's own > good?. There > are 78 characters in the row, and 78 characters wide on the screen, so > when it gets to the end of the line it realizes it's at the > end and will > autowrap to the next line--so no need for a carriage return. In fact a > carriage return would probably insert an extra unwanted line on the > display. > So, possibilities: > 1. set your terminal width wider. > 2. Use a different term type that doesn't support auto-wrap > 3. Instead of executing with capture, print to a hold file, and then > process the hold file entry.
I like the HDR.SUP option suggested by David Green. Bottom line is that UniData terminal handling is done through the curses library. The job of curses is to try and send the minimum number of characters to the terminal to make it look right and that is just what Bill has run into here. Cheers, Ken ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
