TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: linux_bbs
to: joseph larsen
from: mark lewis
date: 2015-11-05 02:21:04
subject: termcap ansi.sys

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

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