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Scroll Viewport

UIPACK by default maintains a small (3 line) scroll region at the base of the terminal screen for prompts and for normal FORTRAN output. However this region is erased each time a text Viewport is updated (this being a consequence of the VAX/VMS Screen Managment Package) so that multiple viewport operations are relatively inefficient. The Application Programmer may set this scroll region size to zero, thus inhibiting its update, but having the side-effect that normal FORTRAN output to the screen may corrupt the screen image.


Liz Buckle
Fri Jan 13 17:40:55 CST 1995