Date   : Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:52:28 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: Terminal Emulator/Arcade Problems

Wookie <wooky@...> wrote:
> is weird though is that lpdfs at 9600 was fine for everything else
> except telneting to arcade, while JGH's Xterm works fine at 9600 even
> when telneting to arcade :-/
 
I connect to Arcade with XTerm at 19,000 baud with a 14,400 baud
modem. Works perfectly.
 
> So I'm using lpdfs in preferance to Xterm because...
> 
> 1. lpdfs comes on a eprom and thus is more handy for me.
>    (I don't always have a disc drive attached to my master)
 
I'll put a ROM version on the site.
 
> 2. vi/vim works correctly/fully under lpdfs but not under Xterm.
> 
> 3. up/down cursor recalls previous bash commands
 
XTerm implements standard ANSI cursor movement. Anything the host
system sends that isn't in
http://mdfs.net/Software/Comms/JGH/ANSICodes XTerm doesn't
understand. Tell me what your character sequences your host is
sending and I'll add them to XTerm.
 
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