Here are the escape codes implemented.  As you can see some codes simply
don't exist in VT100, so I had to modify the C code that runs the PIC.


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The one I need to fix is either U or W; I have forgotten at the moment.


On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 1:15 AM Jim Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > ESC D and ESC M scroll the screen. The problem is that most "ANSI"
> > implementations don't implement the full VT-100 command set, so that one
> > may not be supported on most terminal emulators.
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> You know what... my faulty memory got me again.  I was remembering when I
> was configuring WordStar and there were two sets of escape codes for Insert
> Line and Delete Line which VT100 does not have but which WS-BIBLE.DOC
> recommends using with devices which do support it (like Kaypros) to speed
> up display refreshes (because there's the ruler and status lines at the
> top, you can scroll the screen when moving down a document and just re-draw
> those lines when you stop, but if you scroll backwards the ruler and status
> lines would move down with the text... on VT100 it re-draws what it can
> between each Ctrl-W and re-draws the whole thing when you stop, but on a
> machine with Insert Line capability it could insert the new lines just
> below the ruler line and let the terminal scroll the rest down the
> screen...)
>
> I mixed up the lack of Insert/Delete Line functionality with the backwards
> scrolling that doesn't currently work right in TEXT.  Sorry Stephen.
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>         jim
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