C
Christopher Conrade Zseleghovski
HyperTerminal is a small application distributed with Microsoft Windows
XP. It allows the user to connect to BBS servers via modem or TCP/IP.
By implementing correct behaviour in response to terminal escape
sequences, it allows character-mode full-screen applications like pine
or lynx to run in the terminal widnow.
It allows the user to choose a set of terminal capabilities for the
client programme to use; this set is called a terminal type. There are
several built in terminal types and this set is static --- it cannot be
expanded or corrected.
The problem is neither of them is implemented correctly. I have chosen
to use ANSIW terminal type because it is the only 8-bit transparent mode
(mode VT100 behaves better but it either does not pass extended
characters at all or translates them to semigraphic characters for US
ASCII DOS code page 437 (if I remeber the number correctly). It has
some problems though: scrolling does not work, character insertion does
not work, absolute positioning does not work unless both vertical and
horizontal at once. It causes some programmes, notably lynx and Emacs,
to behave strangely: the output is mostly unreadable and you have to
refresh the screen all the time. The remedy is to remove the
unimplemented capabilities from the terminal definition file and to
recompile it.
I enclose the source file for HyperTerminal ANSIW mode; I called it
ANSIW to make a difference with terminal type ansiw distributed with
Linux. Feel free to use it.
Chris
# Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/share/terminfo/a/ansiw
ANSIW,
am, bce, bw, eo, msgr, npc,
colors#8, cols#80, it#8, lines#24, ncv#21, pairs#64,
bel=^G, blink=\E[5m, bold=\E[1m, cbt=\E[Z, clear=\E[H\E[J,
cr=^M, cub=\E[%p1%dD, cub1=^H, cud=\E[%p1%dB,
cud1=\E[B, cuf=\E[%p1%dC, cuf1=\E[C,
cup=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH, cuu=\E[%p1%dA, cuu1=\E[A,
dch=\E[%p1%dP, dch1=\E[P, dim=\E[30;1m,
dl=\E[%p1%dM, dl1=\E[M, ech=\E[%p1%dX, ed=\E[J, el=\E[K,
home=\E[H, ht=^I, il=\E[%p1%dL, il1=\E[L,
kb2=\E[E, kbs=^H, kcbt=\E[Z, kcub1=\E[D,
kcud1=\E[B, kcuf1=\E[C, kcuu1=\E[A, kdch1=\177, kend=\E[F,
kf1=\E[M, kf10=\E[V, kf11=\E[W, kf12=\E[X, kf13=\E[Y,
kf14=\E[Z, kf15=\E[a, kf16=\E[b, kf17=\E[c, kf18=\E[d,
kf19=\E[e, kf2=\E[N, kf20=\E[f, kf21=\E[g, kf22=\E[h,
kf23=\E[i, kf24=\E[j, kf25=\E[k, kf26=\E[l, kf27=\E[m,
kf28=\E[n, kf29=\E[o, kf3=\E[O, kf30=\E[p, kf31=\E[q,
kf32=\E[r, kf33=\E[s, kf34=\E[t, kf35=\E[u, kf36=\E[v,
kf37=\E[w, kf38=\E[x, kf39=\E[y, kf4=\E[P, kf40=\E[z,
kf41=\E[@, kf42=\E[[, kf43=\E[\\, kf44=\E[], kf45=\E[\^,
kf46=\E[_, kf47=\E[`, kf48=\E[{, kf5=\E[Q, kf6=\E[R,
kf7=\E[S, kf8=\E[T, kf9=\E[U, khome=\E[H, kich1=\E[L,
knp=\E[G, kpp=\E[I, op=\E[x, rev=\E[7m,
rmso=\E[m, rs2=\E[x\E[m\Ec,
setab=\E[4%p1%dm, setaf=\E[3%p1%dm,
sgr=\E[0%?%p1%t;2;7%;%?%p3%t;7%;%?%p4%t;5%;%?%p5%t;30;1%;%?%p6%t;1%;m,
sgr0=\E[m, smso=\E[7m,
XP. It allows the user to connect to BBS servers via modem or TCP/IP.
By implementing correct behaviour in response to terminal escape
sequences, it allows character-mode full-screen applications like pine
or lynx to run in the terminal widnow.
It allows the user to choose a set of terminal capabilities for the
client programme to use; this set is called a terminal type. There are
several built in terminal types and this set is static --- it cannot be
expanded or corrected.
The problem is neither of them is implemented correctly. I have chosen
to use ANSIW terminal type because it is the only 8-bit transparent mode
(mode VT100 behaves better but it either does not pass extended
characters at all or translates them to semigraphic characters for US
ASCII DOS code page 437 (if I remeber the number correctly). It has
some problems though: scrolling does not work, character insertion does
not work, absolute positioning does not work unless both vertical and
horizontal at once. It causes some programmes, notably lynx and Emacs,
to behave strangely: the output is mostly unreadable and you have to
refresh the screen all the time. The remedy is to remove the
unimplemented capabilities from the terminal definition file and to
recompile it.
I enclose the source file for HyperTerminal ANSIW mode; I called it
ANSIW to make a difference with terminal type ansiw distributed with
Linux. Feel free to use it.
Chris
# Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/share/terminfo/a/ansiw
ANSIW,
am, bce, bw, eo, msgr, npc,
colors#8, cols#80, it#8, lines#24, ncv#21, pairs#64,
bel=^G, blink=\E[5m, bold=\E[1m, cbt=\E[Z, clear=\E[H\E[J,
cr=^M, cub=\E[%p1%dD, cub1=^H, cud=\E[%p1%dB,
cud1=\E[B, cuf=\E[%p1%dC, cuf1=\E[C,
cup=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH, cuu=\E[%p1%dA, cuu1=\E[A,
dch=\E[%p1%dP, dch1=\E[P, dim=\E[30;1m,
dl=\E[%p1%dM, dl1=\E[M, ech=\E[%p1%dX, ed=\E[J, el=\E[K,
home=\E[H, ht=^I, il=\E[%p1%dL, il1=\E[L,
kb2=\E[E, kbs=^H, kcbt=\E[Z, kcub1=\E[D,
kcud1=\E[B, kcuf1=\E[C, kcuu1=\E[A, kdch1=\177, kend=\E[F,
kf1=\E[M, kf10=\E[V, kf11=\E[W, kf12=\E[X, kf13=\E[Y,
kf14=\E[Z, kf15=\E[a, kf16=\E[b, kf17=\E[c, kf18=\E[d,
kf19=\E[e, kf2=\E[N, kf20=\E[f, kf21=\E[g, kf22=\E[h,
kf23=\E[i, kf24=\E[j, kf25=\E[k, kf26=\E[l, kf27=\E[m,
kf28=\E[n, kf29=\E[o, kf3=\E[O, kf30=\E[p, kf31=\E[q,
kf32=\E[r, kf33=\E[s, kf34=\E[t, kf35=\E[u, kf36=\E[v,
kf37=\E[w, kf38=\E[x, kf39=\E[y, kf4=\E[P, kf40=\E[z,
kf41=\E[@, kf42=\E[[, kf43=\E[\\, kf44=\E[], kf45=\E[\^,
kf46=\E[_, kf47=\E[`, kf48=\E[{, kf5=\E[Q, kf6=\E[R,
kf7=\E[S, kf8=\E[T, kf9=\E[U, khome=\E[H, kich1=\E[L,
knp=\E[G, kpp=\E[I, op=\E[x, rev=\E[7m,
rmso=\E[m, rs2=\E[x\E[m\Ec,
setab=\E[4%p1%dm, setaf=\E[3%p1%dm,
sgr=\E[0%?%p1%t;2;7%;%?%p3%t;7%;%?%p4%t;5%;%?%p5%t;30;1%;%?%p6%t;1%;m,
sgr0=\E[m, smso=\E[7m,