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From: nrossi@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Nick Rossi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Novaterm 9.1
Message-ID: <8646@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 25 Sep 90 06:55:27 GMT
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In article <9598@ur-cc.UUCP> kellogg@prodigal.psych.rochester.edu.UUCP (Lars Kellogg-Stedman) writes:
>A few questions about NovaTerm 9.1, which I finally got around to 
>downloading yesterday:
>
>How does it manage to work at 2400 baud on a c64?  Well written machine 
>language?

The RS232 routines from Transactor (Feb '89 issue) were used.

>Perhaps I've missed this in the manual, but - how can I  get a tilde 
>character?  Have you ever tried using mush or mail without a tilde key?
>Blech!

The tilde key is displayed by hitting shift-up arrow.  This and other key
re-definitions are listed in the docs in section 3.8.1.

>What about cursor keys?  I'm using the ansi/80col terminal, and Emacs chokes
>on the cursor keys...

When you hit a cursor key in ANSI, it simply sends the ANSI code for cursor
up, down, left, or right, depending on what you hit.  This seemed to work
when I hooked my C-64 up to the IBM and typed cursor keys; the appropriate
cursor movement occurred on the IBM.  I don't know if it's different for
full-screen editors and such, I didn't have one available to test during
the summer.  I can check them out now that I am back at school with mainframe
access.

Nick