Date   : Thu, 10 Dec 1987 18:55:13 GMT
From   : cbosgd!clyde!burl!codas!mtune!petsd!pedsga!tom@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: An Idea: An Omnibus Reference Work for CP/M

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
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>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?