15 Oct
2004
15 Oct
'04
1:52 a.m.
>>>> "Ron" == Ron Hudson
<ron.hudson(a)sbcglobal.net> writes:
Ron> Well, Kermit did the same thing as the two terminal
Ron> programs.. Even though they say they are vt100 compatible, they
Ron> still spew garbage and don't make the proper screen with
Ron> vt50dpy... however vt50dpy running on a serial port on the host
Ron> system works fine.. I just want to work at that terminal.
Ron> what's funny is the terminal emulators work fine with teco/vt. I
Ron> suppose vt50dpy makes more use of the terminal control codes..
Chances are that VT50DPY (given its name) uses VT52 escape sequence,
not ANSI escape sequences. It seems likely that a lot of terminal
emulators do ANSI pretty well, but VT52 not well at all.
Check if your VT50DPY has a switch that asks for ANSI escape
sequences; that may help.
paul