Hey, > I've been using DOSemu's "virtual" com ports to run a bunch of BBS doors > under Linux and I've noticed the output appears a little different because > of the way the terminal behaves to some ANSI sequences compared with real > DOS. > > In MS-DOS ESC[2J clears the screen /and/ homes the cursor while terminal > clients only clear the screen. This means the next screen is drawn from from > the bottom row of the previous one, scrolling the screen.
Yep, this is a quirk of the MS-DOS console driver. The only way around it really is to use a terminal emulator that supports it. I have hacked support for it (along with some other DOS quirks, like printing control characters < ASCII 32 from the video card ROM) into PuTTY so that the Unix pterm would support them, but the author wants a more cleaned up version of the patch first. :) -- Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
