[Dorset] Terminal that can do ANSII

2011-10-12 Thread Terry Coles
Paul at work (he who turns up at the Meetings) asked me if I was aware of a Terminal program in Linux that understood ANSII codes. I've never had to do this, so I said I'd ask on the list. Any ideas? -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next

Re: [Dorset] Terminal that can do ANSII

2011-10-12 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, Paul at work (he who turns up at the Meetings) asked me if I was aware of a Terminal program in Linux that understood ANSII codes. I've never had to do this, so I said I'd ask on the list. ANSI fed into DEC's VT terminals that xterm(1) copied and all the other terminal emulators

Re: [Dorset] Terminal that can do ANSII

2011-10-12 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday 12 Oct 2011, Ralph Corderoy wrote: ANSI fed into DEC's VT terminals that xterm(1) copied and all the other terminal emulators since then, e.g. gnome-terminal, so xterm or similar should handle the ANSI escape sequences he needs. (I've found gnome-terminal lacking in a few but

Re: [Dorset] Terminal that can do ANSII

2011-10-12 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, I'm sure he would have tried that. I may have been guitly of oversimplfying the question; I think he might be trying to talk to another device over a serial link, just as you would have done with a VT 100. I was going to ask if that's what he was doing but thought better of it.

Re: [Dorset] Terminal that can do ANSII

2011-10-12 Thread Bob Dunlop
On Wed, Oct 12 at 05:48, Terry Coles wrote: I'm sure he would have tried that. I may have been guitly of oversimplfying the question; I think he might be trying to talk to another device over a serial link, just as you would have done with a VT 100. Can you use gnome- terminal or xterm

Re: [Dorset] Terminal that can do ANSII

2011-10-12 Thread Terry Coles
Thanks Bob and Ralph for the answers. I'll pass it on. -- Terry Coles 64 bit computing with Kubuntu Linux -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-11-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively:

Re: [Dorset] Terminal that can do ANSII

2011-10-12 Thread John Cooper
On 12/10/11 16:37, Terry Coles wrote: Paul at work (he who turns up at the Meetings) asked me if I was aware of a Terminal program in Linux that understood ANSII codes. I've never had to do this, so I said I'd ask on the list. Any ideas? I have used minicom to connect to my Sun E250 server's

Re: [Dorset] Terminal that can do ANSII

2011-10-12 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
On 12/10/11 17:48, Terry Coles wrote: I'm sure he would have tried that. I may have been guitly of oversimplfying the question; I think he might be trying to talk to another device over a serial link, just as you would have done with a VT 100. Can you use gnome- terminal or xterm to do that?