dflahert@tagore.helios.nd.edu (Dennis Flaherty) (09/11/90)
In article <1990Sep9.011304.1616@uoft02.utoledo.edu> grx0644@uoft02.utoledo.edu (Tony Schliesser) writes: > In article <57272@microsoft.UUCP>, kentsu@microsoft.UUCP (Kent SULLIVAN) writes: > > > > Instead, he posted the files to the Oswego site (129.3.1.1), in the > > "pub/c128/telecom" and "pub/c64/telecom" directories, respectively. > > I just downloaded the new Desterm and it looks very hopeful!!! So far, so > good! I've downloaded and built DesTerm now myself (the $25 shareware check is in the mail), and it's a very capable vt102 emulator. I had a lot of problems with the bugs in vt100-128 (which came with my 1670 modem), but when I'd use kermit, I'd miss having programmable function keys and a decent font. DesTerm has an excellent font, online menus, a dial directory, nine definable function keys for EACH entry in the dial directory, script (autologon) files for each, color (colour in this case!), true baud-rate support upto 9600bps, x/x1k/ymodem/punter support, video interlace for 50-52 screen rows, a buffer, RAMdisk support for 17xx, overlays, and lots of savable options. And music. The program works surprisingly well for its size, but I've found a minor bug (my CRC checks were ok when I unpacked it). When the emulator is run initially, and whenever a menu is left, the emulator is placed in vt100 "bold" (escape sequence ^[[1m) mode. Many applications (such as rn and more/less) put some characters in reverse video (^[[7m) and reset with ^[[m. This turns off the bold mode as well, making the following characters darker than what the user was used to. But I can certainly live with this! Thanks! -- Dennis Flaherty dennisf@ndcvx.cc.nd.edu U of Notre Dame Dept. of Electrical Engineering Notre Dame *tells* me what opinions to have.
dflahert@tagore.helios.nd.edu (Dennis Flaherty) (09/12/90)
In article <414@news.nd.edu> I wrote: > When the emulator is run initially, and whenever a > menu is left, the emulator is placed in vt100 "bold" (escape > sequence ^[[1m) mode. Many applications (such as rn and more/less) > put some characters in reverse video (^[[7m) and reset with ^[[m. > This turns off the bold mode as well, making the following > characters darker than what the user was used to. I've found out the cause of this problem, so hopefully by posting I'll save someone else some trouble. In the User Environment menu, Char Colour can be selected to choose the color of the characters in normal terminal-mode communication. The choices are black, blue, green, cyan, red, purple, brown, and grey, and the "light" version of each of these. Since all of these colors are supported by the 80-column video chip, I had thought that "light cyan" would simply be color #4. Not so. Instead of using color #4, DesTerm uses #12, dark cyan, and puts the emulator in "bold" mode. As soon as it receives the ^[[m sequence, the character color changes to dark cyan. I suspect that the rest of the "light" colors are done this same way. So my recommendation is, unless this is fixed in a next release, that the "light" versions of the colors should not be used for character color, since they aren't distinct colors at all. Another tip: if you find that by moving the cursor left, over characters in applications like vi, causes characters to misteriously disappear, change the backspace mode to non-destructive. In most operating systems, the destructive behavior of the delete key in a command line is due to the mainframe sending a backspace-space-backspace sequence, not because the local terminal makes backspaces destructive. I hope there's a patch to keep the program from begging for money all the time. -- Dennis Flaherty dennisf@ndcvx.cc.nd.edu U of Notre Dame Dept. of Electrical Engineering Notre Dame *tells* me what opinions to have.
lybeck@plains.NoDak.edu (Eric Lybeck) (09/13/90)
How do I use the cursor keys and mouse with vi? (or emacs, jove).
Eric Lybeck
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