nkn@Solbourne.COM (Neil Nelson) (10/10/90)
I am running X11 R4 on a color Solbourne (Sun4 compatible) workstation.
Sometimes I use tip to call into local IBM Bulletin Boards. Using ProComm+
at home on my PC, I can emulate an ANSI terminal, and see nifty colors and
graphics from these BBS's. But from my workstation, I have to tell the BBS's
I am using a dumb terminal because if they send ANSI codes my screen gets all
messed up. Since it's probably safe to assume that my SPARC machine at work
is more powerful than my 8088 at home :-), I figure there ought to be a way to
see these nifty colors and graphics here. So I guess I am looking for a Public
Domain ANSI terminal emulator for X. Does anybody know where I might find
such a beast? Or perhaps I just need the correct TERMCAP entry...
An example of what one BBS sent me is:
^[[40m
^[[39m^[[5C^[[0;1;32;40mIMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM5 ^[[33mWILDCAT! HIGH LEVEL MAIN
MENU ^
[[32mFMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM;
:^[[67C:
This showed up as:
IMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM5 WILDCAT! HIGH LEVEL MAIN MENU FMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM;
except it didn't look that pretty. Sometimes I get wide spaces between
letters, and other times a letter will partially over-strike the previous
letter.
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Neil K. Nelson UUCP: {uunet,boulder}!stan!nkn
Solbourne Computer, Inc. Domain: nkn@solbourne.COM
1900 Pike Road Phone: (303) 678-4302
Longmont, CO 80501 Fax: (303) 678-4716