[comp.sys.atari.st] 50 line mode in gulam's te

peter@loon.ubc.ca (Peter Jackson) (02/26/91)

Does anyone know how (or if it is possible) to put gulam's vt52
terminal emulator in 50 line mode? The doc hints that this is
possible by giving a termcap entry for monochrome 50 line/80 col.
but doesn't say how to put the st in this mode.
Thanks.

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boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) (02/27/91)

In article <1991Feb25.214309@loon.ubc.ca>, peter@loon.ubc.ca (Peter Jackson) writes:
>Does anyone know how (or if it is possible) to put gulam's vt52
>terminal emulator in 50 line mode? The doc hints that this is
>possible by giving a termcap entry for monochrome 50 line/80 col.
>but doesn't say how to put the st in this mode.
>Thanks.
>
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There are two little utility TOS programs that switch the ST between 50 and 
25 line mode.  You might be able to put the execution of 50LINE.PRG in your
gulam.g file (so it gets executed when you enter Gulam).  You could put 
25LINE.PRG in your ".logout" (I cannot remember what it is called for Gulam, 
but it is there).  Then by changing your termcap, you could display more 
text.  This is just a theory, but I will try it and let you know.  The two 
programs came to me via comp.binaries.atari.st a long time ago.  If you cannot
find them on atari.archive, let me know.  

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ramsiri@blake.u.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj) (02/28/91)

In article <1991Feb26.185816.25443@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu writes:
>In article <1991Feb25.214309@loon.ubc.ca>, peter@loon.ubc.ca (Peter Jackson) writes:
>>Does anyone know how (or if it is possible) to put gulam's vt52
>>terminal emulator in 50 line mode? The doc hints that this is
>>possible by giving a termcap entry for monochrome 50 line/80 col.
>>but doesn't say how to put the st in this mode.

This is what I do:

alias 50 'set nrows 50'
alias 25 'set nrows 25'

This is in my gulam.g file.

Seems to work fine for me...
Is this what you want to do?

Kevin 
ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu

jls@dynasoft.mn.org (John Stanley) (03/01/91)

>[peter@loon.ubc.ca (Peter Jackson) writes ... ]
>>Does anyone know how (or if it is possible) to put gulam's vt52
>>terminal emulator in 50 line mode? ....

[boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) writes ... ]
> There are two little utility TOS programs that switch the ST between 50 and 
> 25 line mode.  You might be able to put the execution of 50LINE.PRG in your
> gulam.g file (so it gets executed when you enter Gulam).  You could put 
> 25LINE.PRG in your ".logout" (I cannot remember what it is called for Gulam, 

  They are also known as HI50 and HI25.  I'm including them here since
they're so tiny.  uudecode and unarc to extract.  They only work for
TOS and TTP programs in monochrome mode (but, IMHO worth their bits in
gold when using programs that recognise the extra screen resolution...).

table
 !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?
@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_
begin 644 hi_prgs.arc
M&@-(23(U+E!21P      3    !4/3Y"<Z@ !  !@&@"0 X  D!9/^0"0 WP_z
M/  $3DY43[!\  )F)*  (FD ""%I $C_]B%I $S_ZC%\ !#_TC%\ !C_UC%\y
M!0#_V$)G3D$ D$<" )!@&@A(234P+E!21P      3    .<.I3%QE0 !   ,x
M8#0 @#0 T$ +3_(-',#G!P\ !)PXH?($%A\  LR0  5 1!J((3XB^6<O)  Fw
@_]3%N(C@G[25 &+\L[92 *!_V(2<<1)DX!$! \$ &@! v
 u
end

  PS:  Regarding the original question.  I think gulam either has HI50
built into it or supports the use of HI50 using an environment variable.
Try either::

        set nrows 50
  -or-
        set nrows 50
        hi50

  to invoke 50 line mode under gulam.  (Sorry I don't remember which,
but I rarely use gulam...)  Use whichever works with 25 substituted for
50 to reverse the process.  Again, this only works on a monochrome
screen (although the lines per screen gets real(!) impressive when
using hi50 on a moniterm monitor... :^)

  Note that the use of HI50/HI25 does not require gulam.  You can run
HI50 on any system using a mono monitor, from the desktop or any cli
(command line interface) program and, even though it won't effect the
desktop, it will expand the number of lines per screen (and shrink the
characters) for all TOS or TTP programs run after that until you run
HI25 to reverse the process.

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