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- From: liljeber@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Mika Pekka Liljeberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: More on my (strange) terminal problem. : (
- Message-ID: <LILJEBER.92Jul29200950@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 18:09:50 GMT
- References: <1992Jul28.185257.9457@athena.mit.edu>
- Sender: liljeber@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Mika Pekka Liljeberg)
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Lines: 60
- In-Reply-To: jgifford@attmail.com's message of 28 Jul 92 18: 52:57 GMT
-
- In article <1992Jul28.185257.9457@athena.mit.edu> jgifford@attmail.com wrote:
-
- > Well, ^V^O doesn't work. that was the first thing I tried, as I had recently
- > read those articles. ;)
- > This problem only happens under linux.
-
- [stuff deleted]
-
- > I think the command giving problems is a clear screen sequence from the remote
- > host, which happens to be a vax running vms. (yech) ;)
-
- Ah... ^V^O doesn't work under VMS. You have to go to another virtual console
- and do: echo ^V^O >/dev/tty1 (assuming /dev/tty1 is the screwed up console).
-
- There are better solutions, however. Since you get the problem often, change your
- reset (rs) and/or initialize (is) strings in the termcap to:
- rs=\Ec\E)B
- is=\Ec\E)B
-
- After this, you'll find it difficult to get the console into the grahics character
- set mode (a VMS program that actually uses graphics characters might still do it).
- If you do manage it, 'setterm -reset -initilize >/dev/tty1' from another virtual
- console should fix it (assuming again that /dev/tty1 is the plagued one). Note that
- the sequence \E)B sets the secondary character set to normal as well (the current
- default is the graphics character set). This means that it won't matter, if you
- get ^O:s and ^N:s because of line crap. The screen won't go garbled.
-
- > The screen goes into the extended character set, but only the lower case
- > letters! numbers, and capital letters do ok.
- > go figure. :(
-
- Yup. That's the graphics character set, all right. Quite normal.
-
- > My solution for now:
- > create a dos partition temporarily.
- > install dos5.0, and pcplus2.01 on that partition.
- > use this to login and get the linux stuff I need...
- > reboot to linux.....
- > mcopy the stuff over.
- > I was hoping to use linux only, so I wouldn't have to truncate file names,
- > but them's the breaks... :(
-
- Ugh! We can't have you doing that, can we? :-)
-
- > I am going to do a setterm -file dfile -dump 2 and see if the graphics get
- > captured, or if it maps normal on another vc....
-
- The graphics will get captured.
-
- > Later,
- > Jim Gifford
- > jim@raskol.attmail.com
-
- Well, I hope this fixes your troubles.
-
- Mika
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- Mika Liljeberg Email: liljeber@kruuna.Helsinki.FI
- Helsinki University Mika.Liljeberg@Helsinki.FI
- Dept. of Computer Science
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