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