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From: rsellens@watdcsu.UUCP (Rick Sellens - Mech. Eng.)
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Subject: Re: termcaps *!#@$#!!
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Date: Wed, 23-Jan-85 13:23:09 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 23 13:23:09 1985
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Re: no termcaps for a *computer*

In general you can't define a termcap for a computer, but there are
some machines which have screen handling capabilities built into
the console device driver. In particular ANSI.SYS on the IBM PC is
supposed to make the pc console react to ANSI terminal escapes.
Apparently it is a little buggy, but with a transparent (keyboard to
RS232_out, RS232_in to console) terminal program you can get a
reasonable facsimile of a full screen terminal, provided you are
using an *appropriate* termcap entry. Because of this there has been
a fair bit of traffic in "termcaps for the IBM PC" which cover the
appropriate subset of the ANSI stuff.


Rick Sellens
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