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- From: un035513@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: Terminal emulator help, please
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.012017.3536@wvnvms.wvnet.edu>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 05:51:30 GMT
- References: <9208311715.AA12968@pwcs.StPaul.GOV>
- Organization: West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing
- Lines: 51
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- In article <9208311715.AA12968@pwcs.StPaul.GOV>, phile@pwcs.stpaul.gov (Philip J Ethier) writes:
- > 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
-
- Get a hold of V10Squared and Kermit from the FTP site. V10Squared gives you
- (almost) 100% VT100 compatibility. I use it all the time to connect to the
- schools VMS system. The 80 column display works fine on my B/W TV, although if
- your using a colour monitor is might be a bit blurry. Kermit allows (slow)
- file transfers. Which leads me to another question entirly: Is there a
- Z-modem prog for the 8bits??????
- a.centofanti
-