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#SCREEN DEF..WHAT IS IT?

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#6934From: Dave Haynie/C128 LandFeb 1, 1986 4:09 PM
The part that read consol device should have read CLI consol. Output directed to the CLI (like stdout in C) does SOME ANSI type control, though I'm not sure how much, or whether the Amiga BIOS supports any of this or if its unique to the CLI. I first ran across this when porting a VAX application that used ANSI screen manipulation codes. I got various enhanced video modes (<ESC>[1m,<ESC>[5m,<ESC>[7m, etc.) but for some reason it didn't recognize a home-and-clear. Thus, we both agree its a subset, and before I get any docs I can only guess where the actual translation is done. Though just about every commercial terminal program I've seen does VT100 emulation, so either its not as hard to do as it used to be, or there's some level of support that they can use fo it.