Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!burl!codas!mtune!petsd!pedsga!tom From: tom@pedsga.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm Subject: Re: An Idea: An Omnibus Reference Work for CP/M Message-ID: <241@pedsga.UUCP> Date: 10 Dec 87 18:55:13 GMT References: <4276@ecsvax.UUCP> Reply-To: tom@pedsga.UUCP (Tom Gillispie,7321) Organization: Concurrent Computer Corp., Tinton Falls, N.J. Lines: 30 In article <4276@ecsvax.UUCP> tcamp@ecsvax.UUCP writes: > >For those of us who still work with CP/M programming, something I've >always wished for would be a largish book giving terminal escape ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >sequences, disk formats, asynchronous communications info, and >........... info deleted ........... Check out a book called: A Programmer's Guide to Video Display Terminals by David Stephens Atlantis Publishing 1985 ISBN 0-936158-01-8 It has the escape sequences indexed by Manufacturer, Terminal, Curson Address Lead-in, Clear Screen, etc. It also has some info on the ANSI X3.64 standard. > ......... Maybe this would give us an opportunity >to develop something like an RSX that could deal with a standard >TERMCAP, allowing the development of near-universal screen-oriented >CP/M programs. Any interest out there? I think it would be terrific. I use a Perkin-Elmer terminal w/ my CPM system, and have had to go into a PD program and figure out it's hard- coded escape sequences and replace or null them out. Would terminfo be a start?