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From: lsystemsd@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Lygo Systems")
Subject: MS-Kermit /C-Kermit screen appearance
Message-ID: <F7vBqJ.A39@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Organization: Compulink Information eXchange
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 14:18:17 GMT
To: kermit.misc@mailrelay2.cc.columbia.edu
I'm using MS-Kermit as a terminal emulator and it works just fine for the
price. But I am now hoping to improve the look and feel and feel of the
applications that I am writing.
Question 1.
Does anyone know of a way to save the current screen, go off and paint
another screen and then be able to instantly refresh the first screen?
Better still, is there a way to save several screens? More expensive
emulators and many dumb terminals have this capability. I can't see any
escape sequences in the manual, although there is manual back-paging. Are
there any DOS or Linux utilities that can be called as a macro from Kermit
without Kermit disrupting the function?
Question 2.
On a similar theme, is there a way to load onto the screen a screen "form"
held on the local system? Although we are using TCP/IP, being able to
retrieve the new screen from a local ramdisk via an escape sequence or
macro would, I have thought, been faster.
Question 3.
Is there a way, using MS-Kermit or C-Kermit on Linux, to improve the
"green screen" appearance? What I'm hoping for is something that
cosmetically looks more like a GUI (sculpted boxes, different fonts,
graphic images, backgrounds, etc), all by the use of escape sequences
and/or macros. But I don't want to use a pointing device - this is for
use in a retail environment. Obviously there is nothing in Kermit itself,
but can it be "wrapped" in some cosmetic front end that can be controlled
easily by the application?
Question 4.
Is it bad netiquette to ask so many questions in one message? If so, I
apologise most profusely.
Thanks in anticipation.
Bill.