[Coco] Is anyone using Dynastar yet?

[Willard Goosey]

On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 08:05:46PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> On Saturday, January 07, 2012 07:52:53 PM gene heskett did opine:

I'll take a stab at this with the caveats:
1)I don't have a working /t2 so I can't try this myself
2)What I say may only apply to DS 3.4 (the version I have)

> > I am on a quest to find an editor that I can run over a minicom link to
> > /t2 on my coco3.
> > 
> > This I believe uses the /dd/sys/termset file to configure itself, but I
> > don't appear to be getting the desired results.
> > 
> > Can anyone help at this late date?

In /dd/sys/termset, T2 should have the same codes as whatever minicom
is emulating (vt100?  ansi?)

You can override the descriptor-name termset entry by specifying the
terminal type on the cli: ds -t=term

> looked for in /dd/sys, called ds.init, which may have similar functions, 

??? My 3.4 doesn't use a ds.init file.  There's a df.init for the
dynaform formatter but ds itself doesn't care about that. df.init is
flat text.

Termset was invented (according to FHL) by Microware for scred in OSK
v. 1, then abandoned in v. 2 so docs and other support is pretty
slim. It looks like SCRED is the only termset-using Microware program
that got back-ported to OS9/6x09. 

If you have the original DS 3.4 disk from FHL the file Read.Me.Too
talks about termset issues, like FHL's color extension. 

Willard
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