Tips and Tricks: Mass Update

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Jun 05, 2016, Kenneth Brody via Filepro-list wrote:
> On 6/3/2016 4:39 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 03, 2016, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list wrote:
>> ...
>>> Takes me back to the days when "word star" was my editor of choice to
>>> write code (Clipper, DBIII, DBIV); one had to know all the shortcuts or
>>> key combinations to be truly productive.  I never did learn the keys for
>>> `vi` except for those most commonly used.
>>
>> Didn't Word Star use the ctrl-s key for something?
>>
>> This wouldn't work well on a serial connection where that's XOFF
>> and tells the computer to stop sending.
>>
>> As I remember, the TRS-Model 12/16 keyboard had function keys
>> around the numeric keypad, one of which sent ctrl-s (probably
>> something from Scripsit).
>
> There was some printer that used XOFF for some print code (such as  
> "underscore on").  Worked fine most of the time, except when hooked up as 
> a local printer on a serial terminal.  (I remember many years ago when 
> sCC tech support got a call wondering why filePro would hang at the same 
> point in a report.)

The worst I ran into was an offbrand terminal that Ted Rosenberg
(Lennie's brother), got for a client that passed the pass-through
print code start sequence through to the printer.  This caused
the printer to go into something like a 6 inch per line spacing
mode.  I had to modify my print routines to send the proper
printer initialization codes through immediately following the
printer start.

Bill
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