[progress Communities] [progress Openedge Abl] Forum Post: Re: Protermcap Issue

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Should the time come, it isn't hard stuff, particularly since there is usually one that is close. It used to be the each terminal emulation software would have its own little quirks and so I made a bunch of similar adaptations and assembled the ones needed for the particular customer. One neat trick ... given how long ago I am talking about ... was to define both an 80 and a 132 column version of the same character terminal. Then the software had a function where it would shell out using the wide definition and open a viewer on a report that had been printed to disk, switching back when it closed.

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