[pups] PDP-11 (SIMH), Seventh Edition UNIX

[pechter@gmail.com (Bill Pechter)]

Anyone else here remember fansi-console's ansi emulator.

Works great instead of ansi.sys and is a pretty good screen driver for dos.

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

> Mark Tuson wrote:
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>> Hi everyone, this is my first message, after being on the mailing list for
>> the best part of three years :)
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> Though I might consider 2.11BSD, if that'll work on a machine with 24M of
> core, and if the escapes will display properly, because
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>> is a little bit difficult to work with when I'm wanting to edit source
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> 2.11BSD won't make a difference. You'll see the same result. This is a
> problem because you are running under DOS. It is the DOS screen handler that
> needs to understand whatever codes are output by the programs running inside
> simh. In this case, the program inside simh thinks it is connected to a
> VT100 (or xterm, or something similar), and sends escape codes based on
> that. I don't know why it thinks so, but I suspect you told the system by
> setting the TERM variable. Please set it to something that matches reality,
> or else fix reality. :-)
>
>        Johnny
>


Anyone else here remember fansi-console's ansi emulator.

Works great instead of ansi.sys and is a pretty good screen driver for dos.

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-11953307.html

Bill

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