lra@rduxb.UUCP (Lonnie R. Abelbeck, AT&T Bell Labs) (04/12/85)
[] I am just about finished with "VersaTerm-HP", good-ole VersaTerm with the VT100 emulation replaced with an HP 2621+ emulation, ENQ/ACK handshake, local editing, etc... There is a problem with "Mac XModem" (macput/macget) though when you are emulating a HP262X. The <ESC>a sequence tells VT100 VersaTerm to start Receiving a file... BUT an HP2621 does an "absolute cursor sense" when it sees an <ESC>a, so we need another sequence: I propose, <ESC>? . Since this means that macput/macget needs to be modified, I hope that we can do this once an for all. A grep of our termcap says that only the Concepts use this sequence, as well as the <ESC>a. So I hope <ESC>? will be "safe" choice. Currently I do a getenv() in macput/macget and test the TERM variable to decide on either an 'a' or '?'. On other systems a flag might be used, or just a seperate program. If anyone has a better suggestion of a sacred sequence, please let me know, or else I will go ahead with the <ESC>?. Lonnie Abelbeck ihnp4!rduxb!lra