dsims@uceng.UC.EDU (david l sims) (09/26/90)
Howdy all, I just started reading this newsgroup so please excuse my ignorance. I'm looking for a file or a book or something that details the VT100 escape codes and their behavior. For instance, I believe, \E[2J will clear the screen. Help! I've written a communications program, but I can't use any full screen programs with it until I get these codes. Thank you. David Sims dsims@uceng.uc.edu
schwartz@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Dwight Schwartz) (09/26/90)
In article <6201@uceng.UC.EDU> dsims@uceng.UC.EDU (david l sims) writes: >I'm looking for a file or a book or something that details the VT100 >escape codes and their behavior. For instance, I believe, \E[2J will >clear the screen. I'm sure there is a source closer to the actual "origin" of the escape codes, but, in case you don't find anything else, check out this reference (rather old, I know): 'VT100 Graphics in a multi-language enviroment' by Bob Benert (The DEC Professional,January 1984). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dwight A. Schwartz ______--_-____--________------___--_-_-_-_-_----------__ ___________________________________________________________________________ University of Illinois Department of Chemistry | 402 E. Michigan, Apt. 3 Box 10-1 Noyes Laboratory | Urbana, IL 61801 505 S. Mathews Ave. | 217-328-4823 Urbana, IL 61801 | 328-7605 217-333-7605 _____________|___________________________ 333-3004 |Earth's crammed with Heaven, internet: schwartz@b.scs.uiuc.edu |And Every common bush afire with God; bitnet: schwartz@uiucscs |But only he who sees takes off his shoes. |The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries. | --- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
scott@NIC.GAC.EDU (09/26/90)
In article <6201@uceng.UC.EDU> dsims@uceng.UC.EDU (david l sims) writes: >I'm looking for a file or a book or something that details the VT100 >escape codes and their behavior. For instance, I believe, \E[2J will >clear the screen. Since I've seen this before, I can offer a _small_ amount of help. I've a document documenting the escape sequences for xterm, the X11 vt100 emulator. Since I've written a fairly complete NextStep terminal emulator, I know that the codes are right, and most of them are there (well, I've not exhaustively covered it :-] ). I'd be willing to mail this document or make it ftp'able. It's about 7k compressed (figure in that 33% for uuencoding if mailed), and is about six pages long, in .ms format. scott hess scott@gac.edu Independant NeXT Developer (Stuart) NeXT Campus Consultant (Not much, really) GAC Undergrad (Horrid. Simply Horrid. I mean the work!)
billg@cs.tamu.edu (William Gunshannon) (09/26/90)
Another source is the document msvibm.vt which is the explanation of the terminal emulation in MSKermit 3.0. It is available via anonymous ftp from watsun.cc.columbia.edu as "kermit/a/msvibm.vt". It is probably available from other KERMIT Archives as well. I could probably email to one or two people but I don't relish flooding the net with multiple copies of a 30K document. bill gunshannon bill@platypus.uofs.edu
ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (09/27/90)
In article <6201@uceng.UC.EDU> dsims@uceng.UC.EDU (david l sims) writes: > >I'm looking for a file or a book or something that details the VT100 >escape codes and their behavior. For instance, I believe, \E[2J will >clear the screen. > Have you taken a look at MsKermit documents. They might be of some help. If you need them, see both /pc/pd2 and /pc/ts directories at chyde.uwasa.fi (by anonymous ftp). ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3) School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun