taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao) (02/27/91)
Does this version of SnowTerm display ANSI graphics? I tried logging on to some IBM BBS's with ANSI screens, but I got the usual low-ASCII representation of the graphics. However, I was viewing a VT-100 animated text file (less'ed a file from UNIX), and I saw ANSI characters! There was a single-line border around some text, and it wasn't created with the vertical bar or underscore characters. If I interrupt the text at the right place (when the 'ANSI' is still turned on), whatever I type in comes out in high-ASCII instead! I try to capture the escape sequence needed to turn this feature on. Brian T. Tao *B-) | t569taob@bluffs.scar.utoronto.ca | "Though this be U of Metro Toronto | - or - | madness, yet there Scarberia, ON | taob@pnet91.cts.com | is method in 't."
jsnow@javelin.es.com (John Snow) (02/28/91)
taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao) writes: > Does this version of SnowTerm display ANSI graphics? I tried logging on >to some IBM BBS's with ANSI screens, but I got the usual low-ASCII >representation of the graphics. However, I was viewing a VT-100 animated text >file (less'ed a file from UNIX), and I saw ANSI characters! There was a >single-line border around some text, and it wasn't created with the vertical >bar or underscore characters. If I interrupt the text at the right place >(when the 'ANSI' is still turned on), whatever I type in comes out in >high-ASCII instead! I try to capture the escape sequence needed to turn this >feature on. SnowTerm is a VT100 emulator. Version 2.06 and every previous version has the capability of displaying the VT100 special graphics character set. This is different than the IBM PC so called ANSI character set which is activated by the MSB of the character. The VT100 special character set is an alternate font that is mapped in place of the lower case alpha characters. The MSB of the ASCII character has no affect at all. To turn on the special graphics character set, one must first specify which font is desired. This is done with the sequence ESC ) 0. After that a control-N character will select the special graphics character set and a control-O will select the normal character set. Again, the special grahpics character set only replaces the lower case alpha characters. --John