whiteley@nadc.arpa (D. Whiteley) (07/10/89)
In communicating with our IBM mainframe tip under particular conditions accepts a control signal from the mainframe comunication hardware that puts the sun terminal into reverse video mode. This happens on 3.x and 4 machines and under SUNOS 3.x and 4.x. The problem is we can't find any way short of rebooting to change out of reverse video. (I should mention suntools does not appear in reverse video only the basic console screen.) What character string takes one back to regular video display? We have term aliased to the following: set noglob;eval `tset -s -Q !*`;unset noglob So when our console goes into reverse video I type the following: term sun reset Sometimes I have to type reset twice. Hope this helps, Denice whiteley@nadc.arpa
grossi@uunet.uu.net (Thomas Grossi) (07/25/89)
It's possible to turn reverse video on and off by sending escape sequences to the console. The sequence ^[[7m turns it on and the sequence ^[[m turns it off. (I use this in my prompt to draw a black bar across the screen between commands). Sending the second sequence, followed by a clear, should set your screen back to normal.