robert@gitpyr.UUCP (Robert Viduya) (02/11/85)
Mar Mullin (dartvax!tdxsys) recently put in a request in net.wanted for
a termcap for the Wyse 50 terminal. After sending it to him by mail, I
thought I might as well post it here just in case anyone else needs it.
We had one of these terminals here a couple of weeks ago as a demo and,
comsidering it's price, it is a fairly decent buy. The terminal emulates
3 or 4 terminals which include the Adds Viewpoint, one of the Televidio
9xx series, and a Hazeltine. It also has it's own native mode. Software
setup is through a few fairly easy to use menus. It has a rather large
screen on one of those 'ergomatic' (read: tilt and swivel) bases with a
relatively small footprint. It supports 80 or 132 characters per line and
the characters in either mode were crisp and easy to read. There are a number
of different scroll rate ranging from unusably-slow to the normal jump-scroll.
The keyboard (detached) had 8 (16 shifted) programmable function keys as
well as screen editing keys (cursor movement, area erases and the normal
stuff). Video attributes include inverse-video, blink, dim, and blank
(invisible). The screen, besides having the normal 24 lines, also had a
status line at the top (part of which can be written to by the host) and
a function key label line at the bottom. Just about everything is settable
by the host. I was quoted $650 for the terminal (I believe I was given
a discount price and that it was actually $750).
Now for the bad news. The terminal is one of those that has the magic-cookie
glitch for all its attributes except for dim. I don't like the magic-cookie
glitch, so the termcap below has both standout and underlined defined as dim.
Change it if you want to. Also, one of the things they skimped on to make
the terminal cheaper was the amount of memory for the function keys. I don't
think I was able to a get a string longer than 8 characters in any one of the
keys. My biggest gripe is a little bug in the software. It seems that if the
terminal ever recieved a control-X (CAN to you ANSI folks) it would hang.
You can still type and everything you type would go to the host, but it
won't put out anything to the screen. The only fix I found was to turn the
terminal off and back on again. Now Wyse may have fixed the bug. I would
suggest that if you are planning on buying one of these terminals, that you
test it with a control-X. (Side note: a control-X is not documented as a
valid control code for the terminal).
Anyway, enough with the rambling and here's the termcap (don't forget the
signature at the end):
#
# wyse 50
#
# parameters set as follows:
# field level 1: screen=80,mode=fdx
# field level 3: blk end=us/cr,auto nl=on,cr=cr,auto scrl=on
# field level 4: status=on,prot=dim
# field level 5: ret/enter=cr/cr,compatiblity=wy50,enhance=off
#
w5|wy50|wyse50|wyse wy-50:\
:al=\EE:am:bl=^G:bs:bt=\EI:bw:cd=\Ey:ce=\Et:cl=\E,\E):\
:cm=\E=%+ %+ :co#80:ct=\E0:dc=\EW:dl=\ER:do=^J:ds=\EA31:\
:ei=\Er:fs=^M:ho=^^:hs:im=\Eq:\
:is=\E"\E'\E)\EC\EDF\E`1\E`4\E`7\E`9\E`?\E`\072\El:\
:k0=\E^A@^M:k1=\E^AA^M:k2=\E^AB^M:k3=\E^AC^M:k4=\E^AD^M:\
:k5=\E^AE^M:k6=\E^AF^M:k7=\E^AG^M:k8=\E^AH^M:k9=\E^AI^M:\
:kA=\EE:kb=^H:kC=\EY:kD=\EW:kd=^J:kE=\ET:kh=^^:kI=\EQ:\
:kL=\ER:kl=^H:kn#16:kN=\EK:kP=\EJ:kr=^L:kS=\EY:ku=^K:\
:le=^H:li#24:ll=\E=7 :mi:mb=\EG2:me=\EG0:mh=\EGp:\
:mi:mk=\EG1:mp=\E):mr=\EG4:ms:nd=^L:nw=^_:\
:pt:ri=^L:se=\E):sf=^J:sg#0:so=\E(:sr=\Ej:st=\E1:\
:te=\E`?:ti=\E`@:\
:ue=\E):ug#0:up=^K:us=\E(:ve=\E`0\E`4:vi=\E`0:vs=\E`2:\
:ws#46:xo:
w6|wyse50-w|wyse wy-50 132 columns:\
:is=\E"\E'\E)\EC\EDF\E`1\E`4\E`7\E`9\E`?\E`;\El:\
:co#132:cm=\E%ia%dR%dC:ws#100:tc=wyse50:
robert
--
Robert Viduya
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Whoops! Slight error in my Wyse-50 review. The terminal has 16 function
keys (32 shifted), not 8.
robert
--
Robert Viduya
Georgia Institute of Technology
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