Subj : Re: PCBTerm - Features.
To   : Holger Granholm
From : Ozz Nixon
Date : Fri Jun 28 2019 21:04:09

On 2019-06-27 11:32:00 +0000, Holger Granholm -> Ozz Nixon said:

> In a message on 06-25-19 Ozz Nixon said to All:
> 
> Hi Ozz,
> 
> ON> To help support ANSI standards more correctly:
> 
> ON> 1. ClrScr has option NOT to home cursor. Per ANSI Standard CSI 2J
> ON> clears screen but does not actually home cursor, that is reserved
> ON> for CSI H.
> 
> For the uninformed: What does 'CSI' stand for.

ESC [

CSI - Control Sequence Introducer


> 
> ON> Currently testing my CP437 to UTF8 mapping - for 8bit graphics with
> ON> standard fonts... get to pointer errors for some reason, not using
> ON> pointers. So it must be in the RTL code of LCL.
> 
> Very good.

It makes my life sooo much easier, especially as the computer on 
certain platforms is Unicode only. So, those of us (Americans mainly) 
can still design and think IBM old school ;-p""""""

> 
> Are there any plans for an OS/2 (eComSt or ArcaOS) version?
> I'm too old to change operating system and I love my OS/2 and DOS prgms.

If you guys can help me get a VM working with OS/2, I will port the 
compiler over. I have an old VPascal, so I can use it to start the 
builds until it self-builds on OS/2.

I may even look at Serial support - or a serial -> TCP gateway native 
to the OS/2 build.

Ozz aka SqZ

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