harmon@abvax.UUCP (Larry Harmon) (10/20/87)
After playing with termcaps for a few hours I finally discovered that the terminal software I was using wouldn't pass control characters to os9. The software I am using is Color Connection 3 from Compuware. The programs does a great xmodem and compuserve B but is somewhat limited as a terminal. One interesting thing I found out was that control characters are stored to the capture buffer, but not sent to the screen. I tried to use VI with the capture buffer on. The screen control didn't appear to work, but after exiting the program I used the merge command to send the captured buffer to the standard output and found that all the control commands were working, including inverse video, bell, and cursor motions. the termcap I used is # Tandy Color Computer 3 termcap entry # functions supported are: 80x24 screen, backspace, clear to end of display, # clear to end of line, clear screen, cursor motion, home, # cursor up/down/left/right, alternet character set on/off (reverse vidio) CC3|cc3|CoCo3|Color Computer 3:\ :co#80:li#24:am:\ :ho=\001:cm=%r\002%+ %+ :bs:nd=\006:up=\011:do=\012:dl=\037\061:al=\037\060:\ :ku=\009:kd=\012:kl=\010:kr=\006:\ :so=\037\040:se=\037\041:\ :cd=\013:ce=\004:cl=\014: This version has some bugs fixed since my last posting. Now, does anyone know of terminal software which doesn't suppress controll characters? Also I would like to know if kermit works with the cc3. I downloaded the latest version from compuserve and tried using it with the standard t2 acia driver supplied with os9 l2. The program just exits immediately. Bye for now Larry Harmon
davis@utx1.UUCP (Gary A. Davis) (10/23/87)
in article <84@abvax.UUCP>, harmon@abvax.UUCP (Larry Harmon) says: > > Now, does anyone know of terminal software which doesn't suppress > controll characters? Also I would like to know if kermit works with > the cc3. I use WIZ from Frank Hog Labs. It includes Kermit and Xmodem. I have used Kermit but haven't tried Xmodem since Kermit seems to work fine. You actually suspend WIZ, go to another window and then use kermit. Kermit has its own terminal emulator and may be used without WIZ at all. WIZ adds the frills like session capture, printing, VT-52 emulation, auto-logon, etc. The WIZ VT-52 emulation is sufficiently good to use the standard vt52 termcap. I use vi and other screen oriented software with few problems. How do you use your termcap? Maybe it will work through Kermit's emulation, I'll have to try it. One problem I noticed is that source code files I download from UNIX that contain tabs and formfeeds cause display problems in the editor I use (Screen Star). I think they also cause problems when listed to the window. Gary Davis Sugar Software -- Gary A. Davis Racal-Milgo, P.O. Box 407044, Fort Lauderdale, Fl 33340, (305) 476-4393 {allegra,codas}!novavax!utx1!davis