From Version 4, the channel settings are stored by the serial driver, so that they can be displayed upon request. The serial ports are also restored to the last settings made after a reset, rather than being initialised to the default settings. Drivers support up to four SCC serial chips. Using the 1616 as a terminal TERMA [-L] TERMB [-L] TERM SA: [-L] TERM SB: [-L] These commands allow you to use your 1616 as a remote terminal to another computer. TERMA uses serial channel A, TERMB uses channel B. The optional -l parameter copies all the material received to standard error (in addition to standard output), so that it can be redirected to a file to give you a log of a terminal session.
Characters are obtained from standard input (normally the keyboard) and are transmittedover theseriallink. Characters whichare sent tothe1616 are displayed on standard output (probably the video display), and optionally sent to standard error. e.g. termb -l }} logfile If full cursor control is needed then the 1616’s terminal control escape commands will have to be installed on the remote system. These are set out below. You may leave terminal mode by typing . Version 3.0 of 1616/OS sees a change from hardware video scrolling to software scroll.
Whilst this makes life easier for video programming it does slow down scrolling, so the 1616 may experience overrun problems with characters which come after a series of newline characters when running at high baud rates. Alt Ctrl C Escape sequences If you embed terminal control characters or escape sequences in a text, you can display bold , underline, italics , subscript , and superscript text (or any reasonable mixture). The$29.95 DrDoc editorusesthese,asdoesanythingthatwritestexttothedisplay. Thesesequencesare displayedorusedwhenever theApplix 1616encountersthem, thus making it relatively easy to employ fancy text in your programs. Test them by using to embed an key in your text.
Thus, from the keyboard, echo will put the display into bold mode, etc. ^G Beep speaker 7. ^I Tab 8. ^J Line feed 10. ^K Cursor up 11. ^L Clear screen 12. ^M Carriage return 13. ^V Cursor down 22. Ctrl P Esc Ctrl P Esc G 4 Page 96 User Tutorial Manual 1616/OS Commands