#<ESC> c sequence
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Willett,
Do you know anything about how the VT100 <ESC> c sequence, called "reset
to initial state," performs on Rainbow. When I first discovered it, I
thought it might be a shortcut to put everything back to the state that it
had been in on leaving a program like QC, which modifies quite a few
parameters.
However, when I tried sending that string to the terminal and then
starting QC, it apparently screwed up the comm port. (I had sent the string
from a separate program, then entered QC via the operating system.)
It looks like <ESC> c may be only partly implemented on the Rainbow and
may not work outside of terminal mode.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
— Carl
According to the "Rainbow Owner's Manual" (EK-R100E-OM-001), page 183, the
"Reset to initial state" should do what you want, except for the following
Note: "It is recommended that this not be used due to unpredictable
results."
Sounds like they discovered a problem just as they were about to roll it
out the door, and put that "gotcha" in the manual. The workaround is to
just send an escape string that resets each of the individual attributes
you care about.
I should mention that the Owner's Manual I'm referring to is the one
that comes with the 100B and 100+. The 100A manual didn't document the
escape sequences.
Hope this helps.
Willett,
Thanks. That does explain things.
By the way, because I originally bought an A, I only have the 100A
owners' manual, which is why I didn't see the "gotcha."
— Carl