Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!caen!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!unmvax!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: AUX: terminal on Amiga Serial Port Message-ID: Date: 15 Feb 91 23:26:15 GMT References: <347@motto.UUCP> <18934@cbmvax.commodore.com> <9936@dog.ee.lbl.gov> Lines: 35 >In article <9936@dog.ee.lbl.gov> jnmoyne@lbl.gov (Jean-Noel MOYNE) writes: >In article <18934@cbmvax.commodore.com> kevin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Kevin >Klop) writes: >> >[2] I tried running Manx's VI-like editor Z and got a software >> >error: I am assuming that Z wont work properly from an AUX: >> >terminal. Does anyone know of a decent editor that will work under >> >such a set up? (mail me the source code for any suitable PD editors >> >and I will be eternally grateful). >> >> Offhand, the only one that I KNOW will work is Edit - the one that >> comes with the amiga. >> > > The problem with these vi clones on the Amiga is that even if >they only use the console and standard ANSI codes (means you could run >them on a vt100 terminal for example), all of them use dos packets to know >the size (in lines and columns) of the console window. And when you run a >newshell aux: and try try to send such dos packets dos will tell you that >the current window size is 0,0 (I think it's 0,0 if it's not, it's a wrong >and incoherent number anyway), because there's no window. > [...] Stevie checks to see if it is opened over the AUX: port. (At least the version I have does). My own port of TECO should work. It's available for ftp from usc.edu in /pub/teco/tecoc.tar.Z -- ben@epmooch.UUCP ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu {chinet,uokmax}!servalan!epmooch!ben (Ben Mesander) War in gulf: newpath 288 396 216 0 360 arc 288 612 moveto 288 180 lineto 288 396 moveto 136 244 lineto 288 396 moveto 440 244 lineto 36 setlinewidth stroke showpage