23 Apr
2005
23 Apr
'05
1:22 p.m.
Jay wrote about HP 2000/Access Time Shared BASIC:
Then I noticed that big fat "LINE FEED"
button on the TV950 keyboard. I
hit enter, then linefeed, and voila! PLEASE LOG IN. This immediately
struck home, as I know the Access 12920 mux uses an initial CR/LF to do
an autobaud. This clearly told me that the TV950 was sending a CR, rather
than CRLF when the enter key was pressed. Talk about egg on your face ;) I
spent hours looking in the wrong place - vaguely analogous to forgetting to
check that a device was plugged in. Ha. Ha.
So anyways... many terminals I've worked with support setting the
ENTER/RETURN key to generate a CR, or a CR/LF. I can't find any such
setting on the Televideo 950. Is it there and I'm just missing it?
I don't remember seeing that feature on any terminal, though perhaps
it does exist on some.
Certainly the Teletype ASR-33 that we always used with TSB didn't have
any feature to do that. You just had to hit the linefeed key when you
want a linefeed.
And once you're logged into TSB, I don't think you *want* linefeeds after
each CR.
Eric