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From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: bizarre screen font with White Knight and VAX?
Message-ID: <44086@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 19 Aug 90 08:16:23 GMT
References: <1871@ac.dal.ca>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <1871@ac.dal.ca> ireland@ac.dal.ca writes:
>I use White Knight to connect to a VAX running VMS. Sometimes I accidently
>try to look at a "SIT" or other binary file with the type command.
> [...] At this point, sometimes the text that is echoed back to my
>mac has changed to something bizarre.  The VAX understands this bizarre
>font and carries out the command correctly and displays text correctly.
> [...] is there a way to fix the problem without having to quit and restart?

I assume you're using VT terminal emulation.

The VT terminals have the capability to switch from standard ASCII to any
of several other character sets. The computer to which the terminal is
connected can control the character set by sending certain character
sequences to the terminal. When you accidentally try to read a binary
file, the file may happen to contain one of these sequences, which the
terminal will pick up and respond to.

The simplest way to fix this problem in White Knight is to click Reset
Terminal in the Customize:VT Modes dialog.
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