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From: jrd@cc.usu.edu (Joe Doupnik)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: RE: Downloading a file directly from the host's Web-browser
Message-Id: <1995Dec3.140729.68599@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 3 Dec 95 14:07:29 MDT
References: <3DEC95.04190434@meena.cc.uregina.ca> <3DEC95.19280521@meena.cc.uregina.ca>
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In article <3DEC95.19280521@meena.cc.uregina.ca>, vogt12@meena.cc.uregina.ca writes:
> In yesterday's message, I described the two pairs of DEC VT control sequences
> for sending screen output to a slave printer. I thought at the time that one is
> a text- or "cooked-" mode, the other a binary- or "raw-" mode. Well, this is
> incorrect; at least for authentic DEC dumb terminals it is. How do I know? Like
> this: I read DEC's "VT 220 Programmer Pocket Guide", first, 1983. In there I
> found out that "Auto print" (the ESC [ ? 5 i ; ESC [ ? 4 i pair) prints a line
> and a CR AFTER it has echoed on the screen. The "Printer controller mode" (the
> ESC [ 5 i ; ESC [ 4 i pair) prints characters WITHOUT displaying them on the
> screen. But it is not a binary mode. NUL, XON, XOFF and CSI 5 i ; CSI 4 i (the
> eight-bit version of the seven-bit pair just quoted) don't get sent! Therefore
> I can't use it to download binary files.
<omissions>
You can do yourself a favor by following my suggestion to pickup the
current issue of MSK v3.14 and putting it to the test. Speculating on what
MSK 3.00 does is of academic interest in this epoch.
Joe D.