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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple II Zmodem Update : Agate069 (Yea !)
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.105458.4769@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 18 Apr 91 10:54:58 GMT
References: <1991Apr17.195507.9082@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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jdeitch@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Jonathan Deitch) writes:

>It is supposed to support VT-100 emulation but our VAX system here was unable
>to recognize it as such.  It must support ANSI but not be re-programmable like
>a VT-100.

Not necessarily. DEC came up with their own extensions to ANSI so they could
query VT52's and VT100's on to identify themselves -- VT100's and later could
return listings of capabilities like hardware boldface and such.

I wrote a VT52 emulator for my ][+ that supports the VT52 ID sequence, primarily
so the VAX would recognize it without my having to type anything. I have the
documentation, if you are interested (or the author of Agate is interested)
I could dig them up and type in the sequences. They're fairly simple, it's
just that they're in the terminal's manual and not the ANSI spec.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu