12 Dec
2004
12 Dec
'04
12:30 a.m.
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Michael Sokolov wrote:
Of course it's possible, it's just totally
non-standard, and most importantly,
UNIX generally expects the user to have the complete ASCII set available
to him. The V7 tty driver has support for turning an uppercase-only
tty like ASR33 into a terminal with both cases in software, but emulating
full ASCII from the 5-bit TDD code seems like a bit of a stretch.
You could do two-character sequences... $a $b $c ... to get
the rest of the ASCII set (ugh)
Everyone's got their favorite tty to ascii converter, here's mine:
http://wps.com/projects/Sources/model02.bas
A PIC and a little hardware.