#: 20218 S1/General Interest
    16-Aug-94  23:27:57
Sb: #19777-Dynacalc Help
Fm: Lee Veal 74726,1752
To: Mike Fahy 74656,2340 (X)

When others say that CoCo/OS9 Dynacalc was "hardwired", I believe what they're
saying is that since CoCo/OS9 never incorporated TERMCAP files to define a
terminals capabilities, those terminal capabilities had to be in a file that I
believe is unique to the CoCo/OS9 system which I believe is called DYNATERM and
must reside in the working directory that DynaCalc has access to when it starts
up.  (Whatever it's called, I've renamed mine and patched Dynacalc so the TRM
file can be found in the CMDS directory.)

Anyway, the DynaTerm file is where the TERMinal information is "hard-wired".

I've even patch my TERM file so that my Dynacalc screen displays the column
headers and the row identifies in reverse video.  I did it by patching the TERM
file so that when DynaCalc was writing the column and row markers, it simply
picked up the reverse video codes instead of the normal video codes.

There are a bunch of other control codes in that file that deal with screen
formatting, it's conceivable that you could probably patch it up with another
terminal's codes and get it to work.

The major obstacle is that the contents of the DynaTerm file is not documented.
  However, I believe there's a file here in the Data Areas that has some of
that files contents documented.  Scan for Dynacalc specific keywords.

Lee