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From: shier@shorcan.com (Gord Shier)
Subject: Re: Making cursor invisible
Message-ID: <390f1b3b.838594835@news.bellglobal.com>
Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 18:42:28 GMT
Organization: Bell Solutions
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
On 2 May 2000 18:04:33 GMT, fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
wrote:
>In article <390f169e.837413411@news.bellglobal.com>,
>Gord Shier <shier@shorcan.com> wrote:
>: On Tue, 02 May 2000 08:21:05 +0100, Paul Williams <flo@rdel.co.uk> wrote:
>: >Gord Shier wrote:
>: >> I am using VT220 emulation, and I would like to make the
>: >> cursor invisible using the terminfo 'civis' string, which is
>: >> '\E[?25h', according to my vt220 listing. Sadly, this doesn't work.
>: >> Is there an escape sequence that I can send to hide the cursor?
>: >
>: >You've been making the cursor visible. '\E[?25l' (that's a lowercase ell
>: >on the end) will make the cursor invisible.
>:
>: Unfortunately, that was merely a typing mistake in my message, not in
>: what I was doing. I have been using the 'l'. I've tried it from
>: little scripts, as well as doing 'tput civis' and 'tput cnorm' which
>: extract the appropriate sequences from my terminfo db. Nothing works
>: so far.
>:
>Apparently MS-DOS Kermit does not support this escape sequence.
>
>If you are using MS-DOS Kermit on Windows 95/98/NT/2000, you can switch
>to Kermit 95, which does support it:
>
> http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html
>
>- Frank
Thanks, Frank.
I was hoping to use some crappy old PCs and boot floppies as
terminals, so putting win95 would kind of defeat the purpose.
Is there any coding documentation for the MsKermit source? I could
make the change myself if I could figure out how the escape sequence
parsing was happening (and donate the changes back -- don't know if
you're interested)
Gord.