How to listen to my terminal?!

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3 total messages Started by Tim Morris Tue, 27 Oct 1992 14:04

Author: Tim Morris
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 14:04

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Hi all,
	I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to VT100 programming and I'm
having a few problems which someone might be able to help me out with.
What I want to do is interrogate the terminal to find the position of the
cursor.  I do this by sending:

	ESC [ 6 n

And the terminal responds with (for example):

	ESC [ 1 ; 1 2 R

This means the cursor is on line 1, column 12.  No problemo.  But what
happens if the guy using the terminal is holding down the "1" key?
I get from the terminal:

	ESC 1 [ 1 1 ; 1 2 1 R
            -   -         -

As you can see, the "1"'s from the user (printed here with a dash under
them) are getting mixed into the terminal's response to my command, and 
I decode that to line 11, row 121!  So how am I supposed to seperate
what the user types with the terminal's response?  Is there a better
way of doing this?  Help!

Thanks in advance,
Tim Morris.

Re: How to listen to my terminal?!

Author: Elizabeth Haley
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 19:36

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u895174@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Tim Morris) writes:

>I get from the terminal:

>	ESC 1 [ 1 1 ; 1 2 1 R
>            -   -         -
Mant terminal have a code that the host can send to lock the keyboard.
Send that, make your query, and then unlock it.

>Thanks in advance,
>Tim Morris.

No problem.
Now here's a question: is there a program that converts termcap
entries into terminfo entries?
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Termcap to Terminfo (Was Re: How to listen to my terminal?!)

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Author: Paul Peterson
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 00:59

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In article <haley.720214568@husc11> Elizabeth Haley, haley@husc11.harvard.edu
writes:
>Now here's a question: is there a program that converts termcap
>entries into terminfo entries?

Yes there is. Try captoinfo(8). This is a standard unix utility. If you want
to go the other way (Terminfo to Termcap), use infocmp(8).

Hope this helps
Cheers.
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