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From: brianc@cognos.UUCP (Brian Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: TERMCAP for Dasher D210 terminal
Message-ID: <447@cognos.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 13:37:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 18 13:37:38 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Mar-87 08:38:59 EST
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in article <1447@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM#, greg@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Greg Noel) says:
# Posted: Sun Mar 15 19:40:28 1987
# 
# In article <890@crash.CTS.COM# roberts@crash.CTS.COM (Robert Schwalbe) writes:
# # Has anyone written, used, or seen a TERMCAP file for the Data General Dasher
# # D210 or D411 terminals that work?  ......
# 
# Be forwarned that many (all?) versions of curses use the ctl-H character
# (which is the ANSI backspace) to move the cursor under some circumstances.  
# Unfortunately, this is the cursor home character on a Dasher.  So far, I
# have been unable to find a way to coerce curses \not/ to do this; it means
# that the Dasher is not very usable as a Unix terminal.
# -- 
# -- Greg Noel, NCR Rancho Bernardo     Greg.Noel@SanDiego.NCR.COM

True, the Dasher terminals aren't particulary useful as Unix terminals when
running in "native" mode.  It is possible to use the terminal in its ANSI
emulation mode.

I use the initialization string to put the terminal into ANSI mode and the
reset string to put it back into Dasher mode (you must include 'reset' in
your .logout)

A portion of my termcap follows:

sx|d410|d410A|Dasher 410 ANSI:\
  dc=\E[P:dl=\E[M:ei=:ic=\E[@:im=:sf=\E[S:sr=\E[T:tc=d210
sy|d210|d210A|Dasher 210 ANSI:\
  :am:bs:bw:mi:ms:ul:co#80:li#24:sg#0:ug#0:\
  :bl=^G:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[2J:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:cr=^M:do=\E[B:ho=\E[H:\
  :is=^^F@:kb=^?:kd=\E[B:kh=\E[H:kl=\E[D:kr=\E[C:ku=\E[A:\
  :k0=\E[001z:k1=\E[002z:k2=\E[003z:k3=\E[004z:k4=\E[005z:\
  :k5=\E[006z:k6=\E[007z:k7=\E[008z:k8=\E[009z:k9=\E[010z:\
  :le=^H:ll=\E[H\E[A:mb=\E[5m:md=\E[2m:me=\E[0m:mr=\E[7m:nd=\E[C:\
  :nl=\E[B:rs=\E[<0;<1;<3l:se=\E[m:so=\E[7m:ue=\E[m:up=\E[A:us=\E[4m

Note:  I've been having problems with the 'nl' sequence not working as I
expected.  Sending a newline character will often (but not always!) return
the cursor to the beginning of the next line; I've setup the 'nl' entry to
be identical to the 'do' entry for this reason.

Brian Campbell