john13@garfield.UUCP (10/30/86)
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Marnix van Ammers (sp?) writes a while back:
"Too bad DBW's VT100 doesn't have a printer on/off function."
If you don't need to save what you are getting to disk, you can do
an ASCII capture giving prt: as the filename. I imagine this
business of redirecting i/o through the parallel and serial ports
has a lot of applications that no one has thought of.
(I myself suggested setting up prt: for a serial printer at 1200
baud, connecting via modem to an IBM, and selecting print options
from Dpaint, Aegis Draw, etc as a quick and dirty way of uploading
files to print on a laser printer one guy uses with IBM's at work.
Any reasons why this couldn't work?)
But that isn't the real reason I'm posting. No, my mind is EVEN MORE
far gone than that at 2 AM! I just found out a neat (to me) thing
you can do with VT100 (DON'T ask me how I thought of it *:^).
Set your modem to half-duplex (mine, Hayes compatible, is this way
all the time when not connected so I can see what I'm typing).
Select ASCII download, file ram:capture or something.
Hit esc, then c. Whaddya know, the screen clears! I guess this is a
VT100 sequence it recognizes. Use the cursor keys to move around.
These work too. So does backspace, and probably a lot more sequences
that I've never heard of. So draw a picture, or do some "animation"
with characters.
Select ASCII capture again, to close the file.
Now cat (I mean type) the downloaded file, with a full-size CLI
window.
I guess most Ansi sequences are similar to VT100? This is new to me!
Anyway, I can see that from now on people are going to be surprised
when they read a text file they got from me *:^).
Tomorrow, I stay up till *3*!
John Russell
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