Date   : Tue, 08 Dec 1987 18:37:40 GMT
From   : ihnp4!alberta!edson!tic!ruiu@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Dragos Ruiu)
Subject: Re: An Idea: An Omnibus Reference Work for CP/M

In article <4276@ecsvax.UUCP>, tcamp@ecsvax.UUCP (Ted A. Campbell) 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 
> other related computer-specific info for the plethora of CP/M 
> machines.  This would make it much easier for us to develop pro-
> grams with a somewaht braoder market than heretofore possible.  
> -- 
> Ted A. Campbell       |
> email:  tcamp@ecsvax  |

  It has been done to an extent. From my old CP/M application programming days
I have a book that lists 145 terminals and PC's one per page listing:
   -Screen Layout in rows and columns
   -Row, col numbering scheme
   -Cursor addressing and examples
   -Erasure
   -Video Attributes
   -Cursor keys
   -Character Set
   -Emulation
   -Function keys
 
   It's invaluable (and was when you could make money in CP/M). It has a few
weaknesses because it doesn't know about any real bells and whistles, and
some of the info on wierd 'magic cookie' HP terminals and such doesn't even
begin to describe the Twilight Zone design of them, but on the whole the book
is very accurate.
 
   It has just about every PC and terminal that existed in 1985.
 
It's:
     A Programmer's Guide to Video Display Terminals
     by David Sthephens
     1985 Atlantis Publishing Corporation
     P.O. Box 59467
     Dallas, Texas 75229
     ISBN 0-936158-01-8
 
  I haven't a clue wether this company exists anymore, or if there is a
  newer version. I've got mine and it would take a $lot$ of money to
  take it away. It has been invaluable on a number of occasions. I mean
  where else could you find the cursor movement sequences for a Franklin
  Ace ? :-)

  Perhaps we could find the author and persuade him to post his term database ?

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