Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!dpz From: dpz@dimacs.rutgers.edu (David Paul Zimmerman) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc Subject: Re: ka9q - Telnet emulation Message-ID: Date: 27 Nov 90 05:09:20 GMT References: <6101@munnari.oz.au> Organization: Rutgers University DIMACS Lines: 28 raob@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (richard oxbrow) writes: > Could somebody please tell me what sort of terminal the > ka9q telnet emulates or what sort of terminal it is ? It doesn't emulate anything -- it just passes characters through to the IBM PC screen driver. Now, what you would normally do is run the DOS ANSI.SYS driver to get some sort of ANSI tty emulation. However, I had little luck with ANSI.SYS... apparently it isn't fully ANSI. On thumper.bellcore.com in the pub/ka9q/nansi directory is something called NANSI.SYS, which is apparently an ANSI-compliant PC screen driver. If you use it with the following termcap entry: sx|ansi|ANSI X3.64 terminal:\ :am:bl=^G:cd=50\E[J:ce=\E[K:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:co#80:cr=^M:do=^J:ho=\E[H:\ :it#8:le=^H:li#24:nd=\E[C:sf=^J:up=\E[A:\ :cl=50\E[H\E[J:\ :bs:pt: you get a usable terminal (that is, it works for me!). However, this is a Unix-specific solution. I've had no luck getting KA9Q tty-friendly with a DEC VMS system, and I have no clue how to get it tty-friendly with our IBM 3081. David -- David Paul Zimmerman dpz@dimacs.rutgers.edu Systems Programmer rutgers!dpz Rutgers Univ Center for Discrete Math and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS)