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From: patrick@chinet.chi.il.us (Patrick A. Townson)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: writing messages to the status line of a terminal
Message-ID: <1990Feb5.014235.6961@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 5 Feb 90 01:42:35 GMT
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In article <5672@holston.UUCP> barton@holston.UUCP (Barton A. Fisk) writes:

>Greetings all!
>
>I would like to be able to write short messages to the
>status line of our wyse 50 terminals, thereby not inter-
>fering with the applications that are running. The environ-
>ment is sco Xenix 2.2. 

ESC F aaaa CR will write in the host message field, i.e. the upper right
hand corner, top right half of the first line.  'aaaa' is the desired
message up to 46 characters for an 80 column screen or up to 100
characters for a 132 column screen. 

What do you want the message there to look like?  Here are the most common
Attribute Codes:

     ESC A 3 attr   (the ESC A part controls this)
                    (the 3 tells terminal we want the host message area)

Then, a few common attributes are:

0 = Normal   1= Blank (no display)   2 = Blink   4 = Reverse   6 = Reverse
and blink   p = Dim

(There are about thirty different attribute combinations on the above)

I hope this helps you.

Patrick Townson

               
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