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- To: VINOD at MIT-XX
- From: Kent M. Pitman <KMP at MIT-MC>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 80 03:48:00 GMT
- Cc: MOON at MIT-MC, BUG-LISP at MIT-MC
- Original-date: 8 September 1980 23:48-EDT
Maclisp on XX does not assume your terminal to be printing. It simply does
not support the multiplicity of different possible terminal types. The
Twenex operating system in its current form does not support a virtual terminal
display protocol, and as such will not support CURSORPOS. The only alternative,
that taken by Teco and other programs, is for Maclisp to understand how to
CURSORPOS on whatever type terminal you have. No one has been willing to spend
the time coding this up, so you pretty much lose. -kmp