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From: bill@iccdev.indcomp.com (Bill Gaines)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Block mode in HP-9000
Message-ID: <551@iccdev.indcomp.com>
Date: 5 Jul 90 12:57:45 GMT
References: <1990Jul4.003610.18201@m2xenix.psg.com>
Organization: Industrial Computer Corp., Atlanta, GA
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eduardo@m2xenix.psg.com (Eduardo Salom) writes:

>>from: eduardo@m2xenix.psg.com (Eduardo Salom)

>There isn't any 'standard' product to use the block mode terminals
>in block mode from a HP-9000 but you can do it programmatically,
>I mean sending the needed escape sequences etc. I did it for a
>HP-9000/500 and, long before FORMS/1000, for a RTE-III HP-1000
>with HP-2644 terminals and a HP-12966 BACI board, no MUX'es at that
>times (circa 1976).

While there may not be an HP product for the HP9000, my company sells
form development tools that work in HP block mode on HP1000 and HP9000
computers.

-- 
Bill Gaines
Industrial Computer Corp.
bill@iccdev.indcomp.com (...!gatech!iccdev!bill)