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- From: Tom_Klok@mindlink.bc.ca (Tom Klok)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: Terminal Questions!
- Message-ID: <15065@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 13:50:23 GMT
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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- > AKH104@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
- >
- > Ok..Say I wished to design a "real" terminal program for the atari 8bit.
-
- Someone should. :)
-
- > 3) Are the screen control commands standard to the VT emulation
- > or are they ANSI commands...as in ...If I log on the the FREENET
- > using vt52..or 100...things are underlined...highlighted...spaced..
- > are these standard terminal commands or some protocol on top of
- > the standard vt100?
-
- ANSI is much like VT100/102, but with some extra stuff added. I don't have the
- reference document, sorry. Beware of working from MSDOS ANSI.SYS
- documentation, as the typical PC ANSI is an incomplete implementation.
-
- > 7) Now...who wants to write me a Kermit handler for 1000 byte blocks?
-
- Doesn't that violate the Kermit standards?
-
- > 8) Zmodem...now there would be something nice...any code laying around on
- > other machines in C or Pascal or Fortran? that stuff is real easy to
- > convert.
-
- C source for Zmodem is all over the place. I can mail you a copy if you want.
- However, keep in mind that streaming protocols like Zmodem are useless unless
- you can interleave serial I/O and disk I/O. A ramdisk is ok; otherwise you'll
- need a bus serial port like a MIO, BB or the 6551 hack Rick is talking about.
-
- Tom
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- Tom Klok MIND LINK! Support team member - Vancouver BC
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