Conference csc32::consolemanager

1184.0. "Wheird phantom lines in C3." by 54687::WIJKAMP (One day, you won't drink beer, you'll drink GROLSCH) Tue Feb 06 1996 11:09

                

    Hello,


    Customer reports the following strange happening.

    He runs PCM V1.6-110 on a vaxstation 4090 VMS V6.1.

    He display's his C3 on his collor VXT2000.  He uses his own
    copy of console$c3.dat in his sys$login directory.

    Once in a while (� once a week) he all a sudden sees a line
    drawn in his C3 window. It always starts at the left-top of
    the screen, and runs in a different angle into the C3
    display.
    When he than give an exit from C3, than the file
    console$c3.dat is update with the line info. It looks
    somthing like:

    64       LINE: 0,0,806,493,1,#000000000000

    The first part is always "line: 0,0," but the other numbers
    vary.

    Further strange thing is, that the C3 is always in
    interactive-mode, and not in edit-mode. Still the line is
    created.

    They never saw this happen on the console terminal from the
    vaxstation with C3 from system.

    Windows-motif and VXT are on the latest SW versions.
                                                      

    There is offcourse a simple workaround: when the line apears,
    don't exit but do a QUIT, and the line will not be saved.

    But the customer is wondering how this is possible. 
    I have been on location, and I'm convinced they are not
    messing things up.
    There are no motif applications running only decterms ect.

    These line just show up once in a while.


    Anybody ever seen this before???

    Thanks for your answers in advance,


    Ren� Wijkamp,

    MCS, OSS The Netherlands.

    Rene,
      Yep I've seen this one and it has been reported. The exact details of
    how it gets there are escaping me but I beleive NSI has fixed this
    problem and it will be in the upcoming ECO 2 kit.
    
    Regs,
      Dan