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From: hamilton@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
Message-ID: <148600112@uiucuxc>
Date: Thu, 31-Jul-86 14:48:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 31 14:48:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU!hamilton    Jul 31 13:48:00 1986


>I have been trying to use the StarTerm public-domain terminal emulation
>program available on the Fish disks to talk to _videovax_ via a modem.
>StarTerm dials nicely, but does not seem to pass the Escape ($27)
>character to the screen driver.
>
>I have set up a modified ANSI termcap on _videovax_ following the
>information in the AmigaDOS reference manual (the new version with three
>volumes in one).  What I get on the screen is the character sequences
>that follow the escape, with no evidence that the escape was recognized.
>
>Is there a problem with StarTerm not passing the Escape character to the
>screen driver?  Does StarTerm open some kind of custom window that does
>not perform ANSI terminal emulation?  Is the source to StarTerm available
>so I can look into these questions?

    most of the PD terminal programs i've seen do their own intuition
calls (Text(), etc) rather than use the console.device, so you can
ignore what the amigados manual says.  if the program does any emulation
at all, it's probably partial vt100 or something other than the ansi
emulation the console tries to do.
    not only is starterm not available in source, compuserve has been
getting uppity lately about free distribution of the binary.

	wayne hamilton
	U of Il and US Army Corps of Engineers CERL
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