[comp.sys.apple2] RE wrong Character set in Vt100 mode

DELANEYG@WM6.WL.AECL.CA (05/03/91)

 <THROOP@JACOBS.CS.ORST.EDU>.
This may be of interest to anyone who finds the characters become unreadable
when using a Vt100 of other DEC emulator:

What this all boils down to Henry is that a Vt100 terminal had 2 character sets
C0 and C1 the second contained the DecTech characters.  The noise or garbage is
causing the switch in character sets.  This happens to me occasionally or
when I'm crazy enough to look at a binary file.  Here is what to do.  Use your
editor to create a file with a control-o in it.  In VMS use edit to do the
following

EDIT RESET.LIS<cr>
*C
[PF1]15[PF1][KP3]
[CTRL-Z]
EXIT

you know have a file that when you issue the command

TYPE RESET
all subsequent characters will come out in the correct character set.  This
This works for snowterm, kermit, and Z-term the 3 I use most often

Grant Delaney