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|    mark lewis to joseph larsen    |
|    termcap ansi.sys    |
|    05 Nov 15 02:21:04    |
      04 Nov 15 18:32, you wrote to All:               jl> Anyone know of an ansi.sys termcap entry that allows the _proper_ way of        jl> displaying ansi? I tried the "ansi.sys" entry, and it works perfectly,        jl> however it doesn't allow the usage of the arrow keys.              arrow keys aren't ANSI sys stuffs... neither are F keys... they're terminal       keys which should be modeled into the terminal program to pick up on...               jl> I have an ansi gallery under my Impulse setup, which when connected        jl> via the console (with the console telnet client), it displays fine,        jl> however, when I try to use a GUI telnet client like Syncterm or        jl> Netrunner, it doesn't display correctly. And I get garbled screens.              yeah, wow... the telnet client doesn't do ANSI sys stuff, really... termcaps       are a real dance with the wolves... the termcap you use locally or via telnet       is not the same termcap as what syncterm and others use... but then again,       maybe what you are having trouble seeing is the >127 characters? the box       drawing and frame characters?? if so, that's gonna take some different majik       than just a termcap... that because your terminal is probably running in UTF-8       and may or may not be mapping those characters to their UTF-8 equivelents...              )\/(ark              ... Truth has nothing to fear from examination       ---        * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)    |
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