local printing vt120

[Kenneth Brody]

"Brian K. White" wrote:
> 
> Tom Aldridge wrote:
> > Hello fp folks,
> >
> > Anyone have the knowhow to get local printing to stop streaming to
> > screen? filepro 5.0.13R4 running in an xterm using vt120 termcap.
> > Have set PN=\E[5i:PS=\E[4i:\
> > Also tried inverting the 4 and 5 as per an earlier posting on the
> > subject as in: PN=\E[4i:PS=\E[5i:\
> >
> > Tom Aldridge
> 
> By defining those in fp termcap, you are telling fp that your terminal
> understands those sequences and has that feature.
> 
> _Does_ your terminal actually have that feature?
[...]

You could always try this at the xterm's command prompt:

    echo '\033[5iThis is in passthrough mode.\n\033[4i'

If the message appears on the screen, then the answer is "your xterm
doesn't support that".  In that case, you need to check the documentation
for your particular xterm implementation to see what needs to be done to
get it to support it (if possible), or what sequence (if any) it does
support.

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