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From: lphillips@lpami.van-bc.UUCP (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Kermit, vt100, sliding windows
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Date: 21 May 88 06:05:59 GMT
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In <529@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>, vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao) writes:
>I tried telling PyramidOS that the terminal type was `ansi'. But with vnews
>the screen won't clear between messages and there is that extra linefeed.
>What am I doing wrong. and where do I get the source for ATerm 7.3?
>Thanks in advance - Nath

  I'm really not sure. I'm not sure that ASNI 3.64 and the Amiga console
are  talking 100% in the same language, as I've not seen the spec. Aterm
does suppress CTRL N, which puts the Amiga screen into alternate character
set mode, as there were a lot of complaints from people saying that on
certain services, or as the result of line noise, they were constantly
having to try to make it receive a CTRL O to change it back.

  I have an Aterm up here on the other machine, and checked a few things. A
CTRL L will clear the screen, and the sequence:

<ESC>[H  followed by <ESC>[J

will home the cursor and clear to end of screen. beyond that, I don't know
of any other sequences that might be sent to clear the screen. If you have 
'termcap' sort of thing on PyramidOS, it might be worth a look to see what
the ANSI one thinks the terminal needs for clearing the screen.

The source for Aterm 7.3 is on Compuserve, in the Amigaforum in Data
Library 10 (programming). I have never tried posting any source or binaries
to Usenet before, but was speaking with Jeff Lydiatt earlier tonight, and
we will try to get it to comp.sources.amiga.

-larry

--
Janus? Well, look at it this way. If you squint a little, the J could be
       Amiga checkmark, and the rest of the word describes MsDos.
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