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From: Christopher Mosley <cmosley@voicenet.com>
Subject: mskermit ansi-bbs
Message-ID: <hLoY3.10$CM.1641@news2.voicenet.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 02:51:57 GMT
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
I wrote a short time ago about various unix text programs
that have incorporated ansi color: gnu dir and ls, most, lynx, tin,
ncurses demo programs (digital clock, fireworks etc). These program all
work fine in ckermit when run from the linux console or in an "rxvt" xterm
window (but not the xterm called xterm). They also all work in mskermit when
the term type is set to ansi-bbs (this is necessary, the kermit vt color
support is not adequate for some of these programs, especially since it
doesn't really exist ) and the termcap is a particular xterm-r5 terminfo
with the strings for ansi color added - set ansi foreground and background
etc. Since the ansi-bbs term type does not support the special graphic chars
of the vt100 and the terminfo does not specify a special graphics set, some
programs render box chars as the ascii chars | + -. It seems that by
specifying the acsc= string in the terminfo these ascii chars could
be replaced by the real box chars - this can be done.
So finally here is my Question . The ansi-bbs charset starts out a
particular way but after some programs are run. It has inexplicably changed
(inexplicable to me) the 8bit chars have been remapped, now the first 8bit
char is the first char in the dos codepage (smiley face). The dos code page
has been replicated starting at the first 8 bit char. It can be reset
back to the original simply by resetting the ansii-bbs term type. Just
wondering why this is - why has the char set changed and not been returned
to its original state _or_ where can I find a description of the ansi-bbs
terminal emulation.
Thanks