prindle@NADC.ARPA (Frank Prindle) (10/25/89)
Note: no C64/C128 VT100 emulation that in any way requires flow control (and as far as I know, they all do) to allow screen updates to keep up with the baud rate used (1200 and up) will work properly with EMACS *unless*: EMACS is configured to do 2 things it doesn't normally do: 1) Run with host flow control enabled (for UNIX implementations this requires some magical incantation which puts the tty driver into CBREAK (vs. RAW) mode). 2) Avoid the characters ^S and ^Q as editing commands (this requires binding these commands to some other key sequence and unbinding ^S and ^Q from any commands). EMACS was originally written to work *only* with terminals which required no flow control at all. Since C64 terminals do, these considerations must be made for it to work properly. Hope this answers the rash of EMACS/C64 queries that have come up lately. Sincerely, Frank Prindle Prindle@NADC.arpa
dyson@ostrich.cis.ohio-state.edu (mark l dyson) (10/26/89)
In article <POSTNEWS24781@NADC.ARPA> prindle@NADC.ARPA (Frank Prindle) writes: >Note: no C64/C128 VT100 emulation that in any way requires flow control (and >as far as I know, they all do) to allow screen updates to keep up with the >baud rate used (1200 and up) will work properly with EMACS *unless*: I must reiterate my earlier response in this area. I have been using a C-128 vt-100 emulator with Emacs for many months now, and have yet to run across _ANY_ problems. The emulator is an upgrade of the original one packaged with the 1670 modem, done by F. Bowen. I obtained it through Quantum link, and so to the best of my knowledge it is in the public domain. I don't recall having used ^S lately, but page breaks using ^Q^L go in just fine. I have never tried to tear into the code (no time, but I will one day), so I don't know just how it works with our Vax, but it does, and flawlessly! I have in no way customized my Emacs interface--it runs totally in default mode on my Sun or my C-128. File name on Q-link is vt100.128 (some sort of v2 is also possibly in the title, I can't recall. It's easy enough to find in the applications area of the Link). I hope this quells any rumors of not being able to run Emacs on a 128. For my next trick I'll try to get it to run on a vt-52 in C-64 mode, but don't hope for any miracles! :-D -Mark-
scott@max.u.washington.edu (10/26/89)
In article <73080@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, dyson@ostrich.cis.ohio-state.edu (mark l dyson) writes: > [...portion of the text deleted...] > > I hope this quells any rumors of not being able to run Emacs on a 128. > For my next trick I'll try to get it to run on a vt-52 in C-64 mode, but > don't hope for any miracles! :-D > > -Mark- Pardon me for asking this, but what are EMACS and what are they used for? Scott.
rschofie@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (10/26/89)
I use the VT-52 emulator that came with my 1670 modem with EMACS and I have
NEVER had any problems. I use it with a plain old C-64. I have never had to
change any defaults in UNIX. Of course I switch to 80 columns on the VT-52
emulator. (CTRL 8).
Robert Schofield
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rschofie@iubacs.bitnet (forwarded)dyson@dory.cis.ohio-state.edu (mark l dyson) (10/26/89)
In article <9155@max.u.washington.edu> scott@max.u.washington.edu writes: >Pardon me for asking this, but what are EMACS and what are they used >for? Nothing to pardon. Emacs _is_ a screen editor that is very commonly used by UNIX machines (I'm writing this via my Emacs window via my C-128 right now). One of the greatest things about it is how it can be tailored to what you're writing. If I'm programming in C, Cobol, Pascal, or whatever, it gives the appropriate tab stops, etc. In pure text mode (like now) it's a super word processor. It's applications go on and on... -Mark-
rwillis@hubcap.clemson.edu (Richard "Crash" Willis) (10/26/89)
Hello, does anyone out there have a good GIF, or any GIF, converter for
C-64? I seem to remember someone asking for a BETTER GIF because his take
about an hour. Could someone send me one or tell me where to ftp for it?
Thanks in advance!
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jgreco@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Joe Greco) (10/27/89)
In comp.sys.cbm article <POSTNEWS24781@NADC.ARPA>, prindle@NADC.ARPA (Frank Prindle) wrote:
]Note: no C64/C128 VT100 emulation that in any way requires flow control (and
]as far as I know, they all do) to allow screen updates to keep up with the
]baud rate used (1200 and up) will work properly with EMACS *unless*:
]
]EMACS is configured to do 2 things it doesn't normally do:
]
]1) Run with host flow control enabled (for UNIX implementations
]this requires some magical incantation which puts the tty
]driver into CBREAK (vs. RAW) mode).
]
]2) Avoid the characters ^S and ^Q as editing commands (this
]requires binding these commands to some other key sequence
]and unbinding ^S and ^Q from any commands).
Our school's PACX switch relies entirely on software flow control,
so we have patched our default .emacs file as so to fix this:
;; replace C-s with C-\ in a much more general way so that C-\ can be typed
;; for every instance of C-s. It is at such a low level that emacs even thinks
;; that you typed a C-s. replace C-s with C-\ , globally
;; this disables any command which uses C-\ I believe there are two
;; note that position \034(octal) which is C-\ is switched with \023(octal)
;; which is C-s
(setq keyboard-translate-table "\000\001\002\003\004\005\006\007\010\011\012\013\014\015\016\017\020\021\022\023\024\025\026\027\030\031\032\033\023\035\036\037 !\042#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\134]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~\177")
;; change ctrl-q so it can be used as flow control
;; remap C-q tp ESC `
(global-unset-key "\C-q")
(global-set-key "\e`" 'quoted-insert)
(setq trim-versions-without-asking t)
;; change input mod to CBREAK mode for C-s C-q
;; emacs will never see C-s, C-q
(set-input-mode nil t)
;; change help command from C-h to ESC ?
;; so we can use C-h for backspace
(global-unset-key "\C-h")
(global-set-key "\e?" 'help-command)
;; set backspce to delete a char same as DEL
(global-set-key "\C-h" 'delete-backward-char)
These changes do a little more than just ^S/^Q, but they are all useful.
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In article <6882@hubcap.clemson.edu> rwillis@hubcap.clemson.edu (Richard "Crash" Willis) writes: > Hello, does anyone out there have a good GIF, or any GIF, converter for >C-64? The question goes double for me. How about it? Some titles for GIF converters that may be on Compuserve would also be nice. Thanks. -Mark-