17 Jan
2012
17 Jan
'12
4:55 a.m.
In article <4F14C3B8.9080509 at brouhaha.com>,
Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> writes:
Even if it uses EIA-232, it's still not going to
be much use on a Linux
box, unless you write Linux software that knows how to talk to it. It
is a block-mode terminal, not character mode. It doesn't send one byte
over a serial port every time you hit a key, and it doesn't display a
character each time a byte comes in. Trying to use it on a serial line
with a getty process would be an exercise in futility.
Lots of RS-232 terminals can operate in block mode. vt100.net doesn't
mention anything about block mode for the VT62, but mentions that it
adds inverse video.
Usually serial terminals that operate in block mode have an escape
sequence that puts them in block mode. I don't have any data either
way, but I would think that the VT62 could operate in conversational
or block modes like the VT131 did compared to the VT100. Manx
provides metadata for the VT62 manuals but they aren't online.
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