Newbie Apology

[bjr@ebicom.net (Brian J. Roland)]

Hi,
    It's me again...

    Many apologies for opening a can of worms over vt102...
It was never my intent to flame, or draw flames to individuals and 
their pet projects.  I'm new to the admin end of Mint and Unix-like systems, 
and simply wanted to know if I was missing something that DOES exist, or how 
to get as close as possible...and only meant for my "gripes" to serve as 
examples to my habits in the likely event that "I" was missing 
something, or doing something wrong on my end.
    

    Thanks to those who have assisted in directing me closer to that 
"ideal" I'm searching for.

    Ending on a positive note :)
Someone pointed out my TW100 is a version or two behind the current*my mistake*, 
so I'll be checking out the newer one ASAP.  I'm thinking VT100 may not 
be able to do what I envision, but then again, I have no fact based clue as 
to the differences between VT100 and VT102...I'm just a bone-head user that 
got his first compiler a few weeks ago (what's it do?).

    One specific example of a capability I'd "like to have".
*TW II may do this properly, I haven't checked yet*

Run Tiny Fugue In split screen mode so that each half truly scrolls...
Luckily, tf allows the user to disable scrolling so that text wraps back
to the top, clearing two following lines instead, and also offers settings
to "clear on return" and other such adjustments.  So yay!  With minor 
adjustments and lots of trial and error studying I did finally get it to work 
at least :)  In all cases with tw so far, tf had to be told manualy via 
user attributes not to scroll, and to clear old lines of text in a wrapping 
like manner.

I could be wrong, but it seems the partial screen scroll is about the 
only major difference in VT100 and VT102....is it not?  I did some 
tests on an XT with ProCom at work, and found that VT100 hated split 
screen stuff like tf and irc, while VT102 had it over for a plesant brekfast :)
Also noticed that other programs behave differently as well (such as 
ntalk, rtin, and some of the odd ball piped and shared cut and paste modes 
of emacs)...VT100 rolls, or clears and redraws the whole screen, and VT102 
almost always scrolls.

Oh well...nothing major important...I'm slowly learning the 
workarounds.  Man I do wish these internet providers would quit 
compiling all their stuff with hard code VT102 flags set (bypassing the 
termcap)!  Or maybe some binary distributions went out that way?  I run 
into this alot on linux boxes :/
 

Thanks folx,
Brian