Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bcm!pauling!klong From: klong@pauling.bcm.tmc.edu (Kevin Long) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Xterm ESC sequence DOC and question Message-ID: <1630@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> Date: 1 Aug 89 14:21:25 GMT References: <1317@esquire.UUCP> <8907121627.AA04116@expo.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: usenet@bcm.tmc.edu Organization: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx Lines: 36 A number of people are asking if the appendix in O'Reilly's 3rd X book contains valid escape sequences for the X11 version of xterm. To the degree that I've used it, things still work just as advertised. Although the book is rather introductory, it does have its values, especially in the afore-mentioned appendix. The complete title is: "X Window System User's Guide, Volume 3" (subtitled "for Version 11 of the X Window System") by Tim O'Reilly, Valerie Quercia, and Linda Lamb published by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. (the Nutshell people) To order or obtain a catalog, call 1-800-338-NUTS or mail to nuts@ora.UU.NET The cover is hot pink, I guess, and the book sells for $24.95. Every person new to X should read this, we think. One of the things I DID test was the VT100-to-Tektronix mode escape sequences. You'll be glad to hear they work fine. What I do is cat a file to my xterm to do the switching. The file has the proper escape sequences. To go from vt100 mode to Tektronix mode, enter the following sequence (ignore the spaces): Esc [ ? 3 8 h (that's six keystrokes) To go from Tektronix mode to vt100 mode, enter the following sequence (and again blow off the spaces): Esc ETX (two keystrokes this time, where ETX is ASCII 3) Buy the book if you need to learn more. Regards, Kevin Long