perry@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Rick Perry) (02/07/86)
> Following are some Procedures to fully use the vt100 terminal > it is uuencoded because of non printing characters. > ... There are a lot of reasons for preferring chr(27) over '<literal ESC>' and even chr(9) instead of "<literal tab>", chr(7) instead of literal bells... Some compilers won't even accept "non-printable" chars in literal strings; what does YOUR printer do when it gets a literal ESC[0j ??? using 'more' to read the uudecoded version of your file did wierd things to my vt100! and then there's the whole necessity for uuencode/decode in the first place. ----- write( chr(27), 'rest of cmd' ) { would be ok... } ----- CONST ESC=27; ... write( chr(ESC), 'etc' ) { would be even better... } ----- CONST ESC=chr(27); ... write( ESC, 'etc' ) { would be great if all compilers would take it! } ----- Anyway, thanks for the sources, they look very useful, and certainly handier than trying to uudecode the DEC-vt100 manuals... ...Rick Perry ...{pyrnj,psuvax1}!vu-vlsi!perry