filePro and Anzio Lite?

Bob Rasmussen ras at anzio.com
Tue Sep 6 15:14:16 PDT 2005


On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Fairlight wrote:

> ...
> > 6. When characters double up, it usually indicates that Anzio has been
> > forced into Half Duplex mode. This can happen if Anzio receives
> >    Esc [ 12 l
> > (that's an ell on the end).
>
> Confirmed that it's in FD mode beforehand and HD mode afterwards.  What's
> more, I've traced it to something happening right after you hit enter with
> the menu password.  I checked the FD setting in the Communicate menu, and
> it was on before that, and off after it.  If I turn it back on, it does
> -not- go back off on exiting.  It does not go off if I launch dcabe.
> However, it goes off when coming back from dcabe.  Same with the menu
> creation program.  Probably coming back from anything.
>
> This is definitely runmenu at work.
>
> Tried mapchan -n with an entry that says to use it.  No help.
>
> Okay, I just ran it from inside 'script' and am looking at the results for
> something obvious.
>
> > Bottom line, Anzio is receiving a bad control sequence. It might come from
> > a) the filePro termcap entry, b) the /etc/termcap, c) the terminfo entry,
> > or d) a particular program. Anzio responds to way more sequences than
> > single-model emulators.
>
> It's definitely choice B.
>
> However, I'm looking at the typescript file of the entire run, and I see
> many ESC[12 codes, but not a single one of them is ESC[12] according to a
> search of the results for "12]".  Are there any other codes to look for
> that would do this to Anzio?

No, not "]" (square bracket), "l" (ell).

You can see the last 8192 characters Anzio received by going to
Diagnose:Interpret. Control codes will be shown as reverse video
hexadecimal. This is a scrollable buffer, with the latest at the bottom.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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