This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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#21242-
#ANSI Graphics on Rainbow
Message #21248
Rainbow "Special and Line Drawing Characters" To activate: ESC ( 0 for G0, ESC ) 0 for G1 To deactivate: ESC ( B for G0, ESC ) B for G1 (activates U.S. Character Set) or : enter Set-Up, PARAM SET screen, and toggle col. 12 twice (DEFAULT CHAR SET) Octal…
#21242-
ANSI Graphics on Rainbow
Message #21247
Rick: My P.S. may have misled you. The WPS-PLUS manual, appendix A, is just another source for the "Multinational Characters" (things like "cent sign," "yen sign," "capital A with grave accent," etc.). There are no "Line Drawing Characters." Similarly, the "Technical Character Set" that neither of us has does not…
#21237-
#ANSI Graphics on Rainbow
Message #21239
P.S. : Another source for Rainbow characters 128-255 is WPS-PLUS/Rainbow Editor Functions, Appendix A (gives decimal codes and "compose sequences"). There is also apparently a "Technical Character Set" which may be installed in ROM in place of the "Multinational Characters" I've been telling you about. If you've got that, all…
#21237-
#ANSI Graphics on Rainbow
Message #21238
Rick: For characters 128-255 on the Rainbow, I have two sources: (1) Rainbow MS-DOS Version 2.11 Advanced User's Guide, page 4-37: in explaining the use of the SORT command, it lists characters 0 through 255 in SORT order; (2) Rainbow Owner's Manual, appendix F, p. 139: a chart of all…
Does this mean that: 1. If I use the "delete" key to delete, I am a deviant? 2. My use of the "delete" key distracts the diligent CIS computers from the important task of serving those who use "backspace" to delete? 3. I am in danger of finding someday that…
#DOS insert in Nov CS Mag
Message #21124
Just got my August Compuserve Magazine. What's this IBM coup?? "Active members of any IBM-related forum will automatically get [a special DOS] insert" in November. What about Rainbows? BFT
Dave: I guess I don't understand your assertion that CIS requires a "BS" character to erase the previous character. When I want to erase the character I've just typed I always hit the key above "Return" labeled with an "X" inside a pentagonal "arrow" outline pointing to the left. I…
Dave: I've been using LCTERM's feature to end lines and make script files readable for some time. What I had this time was something different: lines that ended with and lines that had four or five 's in the middle. I'm not sure how they got there, and EDLIN wouldn't…
(Sorry about the gaps in my previous reply — EDLIN somehow threw in a bunch of extra carriage-returns without linefeeds… There were some following my control-C too, which of course Compuserve used as an excuse to ignore the control-C… BFT)
Dave: Actually when I changed my script from a control-C to a carriage-return I put in a five-second wait before the carriage-return because I was copying from another script that had one there. Now that I think of it, the old script had no wait, and it had a control-C…
Dennette: After I collected a few howlers from the 'Bow "Owners Manual" I filled out the "Manual Evaluation Card" in the back and sent it in. That was last week. Do you suppose Digital will prepare a new edition incorporating my corrections?! (The ESC 8 section wasn't one of them.)…
Dennette: I discovered that ESC 8 would crash my 'Bow last March (I made a little file with ESC 8 in it so I would remember) and I'm glad to know "why". (And why it only happens sometimes…) The infamous "Rainbow Owner's Manual" Appendix H, under "Restore Cursor/ESC 8", states…
Bill: You suggestion to "wake up" Compuserve with a instead of a ^C works — thanks! I'm still a little disappointed in this solution to the problem, for two reasons. 1. Suppose I meet a system someday that really _needs_ me to send a ^C? I still can't do it…
Oops! My script ate my sharp sign! Make that 'sharp sign ("#").'
#LCTERM script ^C send?
Message #21031
I use LCTERM script files to log onto Compuserve. After my modem connects I have to send a Control-C to clear the line and get the "User ID:" prompt. So I put a control-C character at that point in the script file, expecting that it be sent down the line…
Carl: If Digital is still making VT100's they must still print manuals for them. I'll see what I can find. My Rainbow Owner's Manual is "part no." EK-R100E-OM-002, and I learned what I knew before your note from Appendix H, "Rainbow Control Functions (Escape Sequences)." It has some curious omissions,…
Dennette: Your enthusiasm is infectious, but I'm using PKARC to send files to and from a Sun/Unix system that has an ARC utility compatible with both SEA ARC and PKARC. If I got ZIP I'd end up having to use the ZIP/ARC conversion every time I sent a file, and…
Carl, Thanks for the help! Control-N (ASCII 14) does indeed change to G1, and control-O (ASCII 15) changes to G0. (I also found while testing what control-N does when typed at the keyboard: echoes everything on the printer!) I guess what I really need is a VT100 manual. The relevant…
Maybe the preceding message should be in the "Hardware" section — I wasn't sure
#Character sets G0 and G1
Message #21006
Some of the other computers I log into from my Rainbow send escape sequences that change my character set(s). (For example, when I log into a Vax running VMS and use the MAIL utility. I don't know why, but MAIL sends the sequence ESC ( 0 when it starts up.)…
Actually Shakespeare didn't feel that way — it was one of his characters, Dick the butcher, one of the rabble roused by Jack Cade, who said it. Speaking of rights, I just tried to register my PKARC and they sent the check back! "We have developed _ALL NEW DATA COMPRESSION…