Alastair Milne <milne@uci-icse.ARPA> (11/20/84)
Does anybody know of any bugs in the Corona PC's serial ports?
Setup is this: running a simple serial communications program on the
Corona under the UCSD p-System, IV.1 (Network Consulting,
Inc. version); communicating with VAX 11/750,
running under 4.2 BSD UNIX. Communications program has
NO terminal emulation, so UNIX must do all
screen handling, using p-System's screen control codes.
I wrote a termcap for the Corona, using the screen controls whose
prefix is ^Z, since these give a greater range of controls than the ones
whose prefix is 17. (Network Consulting manual explains the two sets of
codes).
Using the termcap on the IBM PC, works with only minor problems (text
highlighting using standout reverts to normal before highlighted text is
written; vi says "that macro wasn't mapped when initialising"). All screen
editing functions work fine.
Using the termcap on the Corona fails miserably. No screen functions at
all, looks as if prefix character not accepted. Both IBM and Corona running
same system as far as I can tell.
So, anybody know of problems in the Corona's ports? Hope not, prefer to
think I can solve it in software. But don't spare me the bad news if you have
it.
Much thanks
Alastair Milne
Educational Technology Center
UC Irvine