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Date:Mon Aug 16 18:34:57 2002 
Subject:pop11 on a PC : does HELP work? 
From:David A Stevenson 
Volume-ID:1020816.02 

hi there,

I worked with lovely POP11 years ago on our trusty old Sun Unix machines,
but was called in today to help a colleague who was having problems
loading a file into POP11 running on a PC under Windows 2000
... the problem itself was easily fixed (an old "define ... end;"
piece of code), but while working on it I noticed that if I typed e.g.

: help help

into the pop11 window, it threw up an error, complaining that it didn't
recognise the terminal type ... hmm ...

... is this something that can be fixed e.g. by putting a clever line into
one's init.p file, or is there a fundamental problem there with PCs?
(I noticed references to unavailability of graphics and windows programming,
but also a suggestion that a basic VED editor (split window) facility
was available, which suggest the PC version has *some* handle on
the terminal it's dealing with! <grin>)

hope you can help with this,

cheers,
david

p.s. there's a chance I'm being very dim about this, and it's something
very obvious (I hope so!) - I can only plead long-term archiving of my
pop11 brain cells!

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