commodore terminfo entry

On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 07:17:37AM -0500, David Wood wrote:
>One issue with the screen code in the kernal is that a 'line' can be
>multiple screen lines in size, affecting scroll, delete line, insert 
>line, and text wrap around the right edge of the screen.

Oh, I just checked with VICE's xcbm2, and this difference of physical 
and logical lines indeed exists if you use ESC t and ESC b to set the 
window boundaries. Previously I thought that it only exists on the 
narrower-than-80 column screens (up to 4*22 characters on the Vic-20 and 
2*40 characters on the C64 and 40-column PETs).

Does your terminfo entry make use of the windows? man 5 terminfo does 
not document "setbotright" or "settopleft". Instead, it documents 
set_window aka wind aka wi.

I see double HOME (resetting the current window to the full screen) in 
your initstring and reset sequences.

BTW, in my Debian system, there exists /usr/share/terminfo/c/commodore 
already. It is in binary format (described by man 5 term, it seems). It 
contains the following string and some numbers that seems to correspond 
to cols#80 and lines#24:

commodore|b-128|Commodore B-128 micro

So, maybe it is sufficient to use TERM=commodore and a bare-bones 
terminal program written in BASIC, connecting the keyboard and screen 
with the RS-232 device?

How would I connect the emulated serial port of xcbm2 to a /dev/pts of a 
new shell session, similar to how invoking "xterm" creates a new shell 
process in a new virtual terminal? The documentation 
http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net/vice_6.html does not mention an example 
of this usage.

BTW, ESC c (autoins off) should trigger the POST on all Digital VT 
series terminals. At least it does that on the VT220 and VT420, taking 
maybe half a minute to complete. When using xterm, gnome-terminal or 
xfce4-terminal, I occasionally use "echo -ne '\ec'" to empty the 
scrollback buffer before outputting something big to the terminal, to be 
viewed with Shift-PageUp/Shift-PageDown.

	Marko

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