Re: Editing through a Terminal?

[Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>]

	For the last 8 years or so, I have used mskermit on a P.C. as
a VT100 terminal and vi on UNIX boxes ranging from DEC Ultrix to IBM's
AIX.  As long as the system knows what type of terminal one is
supposed to be, it works like a charm.  Just this year, I found out
about all the neat things one can set in vi.  My favorite is
:set wrapmargin=10 or 20 or whatever.  The number is the number of
characters from the right hand margin that will trigger a new line of
text.  the vi's I have used wrap on word breaks which is almost like a
word processor.  If a word is so long that it looks like it will go
past the margin, vi just suddenly reprints it on the next line which
means that one can just type and not have to worry about the right
margin.

	As for the screen reader, it is a home-grown one I wrote in
8086 assembler about 10 or 11 years ago.  It can intercept interrupt
10 calls and that's how it reads incoming data if they use the BIOS
services.  It works best with mskermit in VT100 emulator mode.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
OSU Center for Computing and Information Services Data Communications Group