VT220s under 4.2bsd
Jeff Siegal
jbs at mit-eddie.UUCP
Sun Oct 20 16:37:18 AEST 1985
> >>My own question: I would like to put my VT220 to work in VT220 mode
>>instead of running it in VT100 mode. Unfortunately it believes in
>>the parity bit & goes into weird character set mode. Is there any
>>way to force the parity bit always off under BSD4.2? If not, I'll
>>have to hack script again.....
>>
>> jim cottrell at nbs
>>
>
>All our 220s here are in 220 mode, here's the output of 'stty everything'
>if it helps, the set-up we use is VT200 MODE, 7 BIT CONTROLS
>
It is important that you set the 220 to 7 BITS, MARK PARITY or 7 BITS,
SPACE PARITY, or one of the "no check" modes (I don't THINK it makes a
difference which one of these four you use ....). BTW, when you do
this, how are you going to use ESC (C-[ works, but ugh!).
Jeff Siegal
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