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Article #2143Re: Mysterious VT100 behaviors
From: tim koonce
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 1988 00:53
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 1988 00:53
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In article <401@trigraph.UUCP>, john@trigraph.UUCP (John Chew) writes: > In article <8411@smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes: > )In article <13801@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> koonce@math.berkeley.edu writes: > )-When testing out a vt100 emulator program, a friend of mine discovered > )-that EVE running under VMS expects it to interpret ^Z [ ... q as an > )-LED command. This is undocumented, and runs contrary to the documentation > )-I have. > ) > )I don't know what you mean by "undocumented". It is described on > )page 48 of my copy of the VT100 User Guide. > > Hmm. Not in *my* copy of the VT100 User Guide. The question did, in fact, refer to the use of ^Z, rather than ESC. Luckily, I found out that the problem was due to a bug in the local installation of EVE, which caused it to send ^Z for that sequence. In regards to the other odd behaviors that people mentioned, is there a good summary somewhere of some of these? Also, does anyone know what the phrase 'ANSI graphics' refers to? - Tim Koonce koonce@math.berkeley.edu ...!ucbvax!math!koonce
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!agate!wish-bone.Berkeley.EDU!koonce From: koonce@wish-bone.Berkeley.EDU (tim koonce) Newsgroups: comp.terminals Subject: Re: Mysterious VT100 behaviors Message-ID: <13961@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 7 Sep 88 00:53:15 GMT Article-I.D.: agate.13961 References: <401@trigraph.UUCP> <13801@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <8411@smoke.ARPA> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 26