To: DECUS User Date: 07-May-82 From: James E. Dunn Simmonds Precison Products, Inc. Instrument Systems Division Panton Road Vergennes, VT 05491 (802) 877-2911 At LOGIN the VTX task should be run via the LOGIN.CMD file in each UIC. The VTX task will then initialize the attributes, both software and hardware, for the terminal being used. This is done so that a casual user will not be disturbed by any user who might have left the CRT or driver in a non-standard mode. For the user who wants special attributes set at LOGIN, a file VTX.INI may be created that will convey the necessary information. See the following example. 1 1 SET SMOOTH SCROLL SET IF 1, RESET IF 0 2 1 SET AUTO REPEAT 3 0 SET REVERSE SCREEN 4 1 SET WRAPAROUND 5 0 SET AUTO LINEFEED 6 0 SET INTERLACE 7 0 SET 132 COLUMN MODE 8 1 SET VT100 MODE The first column is a required index for the item of interest and should be in column 1. The second column is used to specify whether the attribute should be set(1) or reset(0). The second column should be separated from the first by one space. The comments that follow are not required but may be placed in the file so long as they are separated from the second column by either a space or a tab. The attributes called for in the example above are the default values used if the VTX.INI file does not exist and should be the desired attributes for most users. To build the VTX task invoke the command file VTX.CMD. The full set of files: VTX.CMD Command file to Compile and Assemble VTX.TKB Command file to Taskbuild VTX.INI Sample initialization data file VTX.FTN Main program segment VT5X.MAC VT52 and VT55 initialization subroutine VT1XX.MAC VT100 initialization subroutine TRMTYP.MAC Terminal type determination subroutine After the task is built, install it. The taskname after installation is ...VTX