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- From: phile@pwcs.stpaul.gov (Philip J Ethier)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Terminal emulator help, please
- Message-ID: <9208311715.AA12968@pwcs.StPaul.GOV>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 17:15:24 GMT
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- I am trying to dial up to my account at work from home.
-
- At home I am using an Atari 800 with an SX212 modem
- running SX Express software.
-
- At work I have a Unix account running on Sun hardware. At work I telnet to the
- Sun from a Macintosh IIsi. The Unix account is set for a vt100 terminal. My
- Sysop tells me that Unix supports lots of different terminals, but since he has
- no Atari experience, he does not know what to specify.
-
- When I dial up and try to work in ELM, the mail handler we use, I get lots of
- extra characters, stuff like:
- [K[?1l>
- [?1l>[?1h=
- [K
-
- When I try to display the elm menu, the blank lines all have
- [K at the left side of the screen.
-
- Here is what my Sysop tells me about this:
-
- >These characters are all sequences of ANSI command sequences that are
- >supposed to perform various functions on the terminal. For example,
- >ESC[2J will erase a screen, ESC[K will erase a line, etc. (The ESC
- >stands for the escape character, decimal 27)
-
- >So, since your program obviously doesn't understand these special sequences,
- >since it is displaying instead of interpreting them as commands, it is even
- >dumber than a vt100 type terminal.
-
- So, does Unix support a terminal this dumb?
- What do I tell Unix to do with TERM?
- Or do I have to do something at the Atari end?
-
- Please respond to me via Email at phile@pwcs.stpaul.gov, as I generally do not
- read newsgroups.
-
- Thanks for all your help!
-
- Phil Ethier, THE RIGHT LINE, 672 Orleans Street, Saint Paul, MN 55107-2676
- h (612) 224-3105 w (612) 298-5324 phile@pwcs.stpaul.gov
- "The workingman's GT-40" - Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman
-