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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Handshake V2.12a tip
Summary: warning about jove + SunOS4.0
Keywords: hangs on incomplete escape sequences
Message-ID: <242@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 7 Jun 89 06:20:13 GMT
References: <16915@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Field Service Co, San Jose CA
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I'm impressed with Handshake - of all the emulators I've tried so far, it's
the only one that passes my "VT100-torture.test".  It can handle double
width double height bold BLINKING underlined special line-drawing characters.
(To the person who remarked that AmigaBASIC doesn't do blinking text:
Handshake does blinking by changing the color palette a couple times per
second.)

The only problem I've discovered with Handshake is that I have to reset the
terminal whenever I run jove under SunOS 4.0.  I haven't determined whether
it's a bug in jove or a problem with the termcap entry, but the following
escape sequence causes the keyboard to be locked.

	$[;H$[2$[?1h$=$[;H$[2J

Note that "ESCape open-bracket two" is an incomplete escape sequence; there
is a "J" missing.  Selecting "Reset term" from the menu clears the keyboard
locked condition (even though it doesn't clear the "keybd locked" indicator).

I mentioned this to the author, Eric Haberfellner, who is looking at the
problem.  He is also planning to use a better font for 132 column mode, so
that double-wide lines (66 columns) are more readable.
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