Digital Equipment VT520, VT525 Programming Manual

VT520/VT525VideoTerminal

ProgrammerInformation

Order Number: EK-VT520-RM. A01

July 1994

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Introduction

This manual provides detailed information for advanced users, consultants, and programmers. This manual has the following parts, chapters, and appendices:

• Part I, VT520 Video Terminal

• Part II, VT520 ANSI Mode

Preface

• Chapter 1, Overview

• Chapter 2, Set-Up

• Chapter 3, Desktop Features

• Chapter 4, ANSI Control Functions Summary

• Chapter 5, ANSI Control Functions

• Chapter 6, SCO Console Emulation

• Chapter 7, Character Sets

• Chapter 8, Keyboard Processing

• Chapter 9, Communications

• Chapter 10, Printer Port

• Part III, VT520 ASCII Emulation

• Chapter 11, ASCII Emulations and Control Functions

• Chapter 12, ASCII Escape Sequences

• Chapter 13, Deﬁning and Loading ASCII Character Fonts

• Appendix A, VT Keyboard Legend Data

• Appendix B, Enhanced PC Keyboards

• Appendix C, ASCII Keycodes and Local Functions

• Appendix D, VT520 Termcap Data

• Appendix E, ANSI Control Function Index

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Conventions

The following conventions are used in this manual:

Set-Up features Terminal Set-Up menu selections appear in boldface type.

Alt/Ctrl/Print Screen

Characters in control functions

Parameters Parameters appear in italic type. Note Provides general information.

How to Use This Manual

The VT520 Video Terminal Programmer Information is written for four audiences: an advanced user, who needs to know more about the terminal Set-Up features; a programmer, who develops application programs; a software product support person, who provides assistance to application programmers and users; and a hardware systems engineer, who need more information on terminal connections.

Advanced User

If you have read the VT520 Video Terminal Installation and Operating Information manual and need more information on the the terminal Set-Up

features, you may wish to refer to the following:

Multiple keys are separated by a slash (/) and should be pressed in combination. That is, all three keys

Print Screen

Control function characters are in boldface type. Below each character is a column/row number that indicates the character’s position in a standard code table. For example:

ESC # 6

1/11 2/3 3/6

are pressed down at the same time.

(

Control function

(

Column/row numbers

Alt,Ctrl

, and

• Index

• Chapter 1—Overview—Provides a brief summary of the product.

• Chapter 2—Set-Up—Describes each entry in the Set-Up menus in the order that is displayed in the terminal.

• Chapter 3—Desktop Features—Provides a more in-depth description of the desktop features of the terminal.

• Chapter 6—Keyboard Processing—Describes the differences in the types of keyboard layouts supported, local functions, and accessibility aids.

Programmer

If you are using ANSI control functions for your program, then you may wish to start with Part II of the manual:

• Chapter 4—ANSI Control Function Summary— Provides a tutorial section on Control Functions and information on designing and down-line loading a Soft Character set (soft font). In this chapter, the Control Functions are grouped according to the task to be performed. The information on each Control Function is very brief. If you need more information, the mnemonic at the end of the line item refers to a command section in Chapter 5.

• Chapter 5—ANSI Control Functions—Provides in-depth information on each control function listed in alphabetic order according to the mnemonic.

• Chapter 2—Set-Up—Lists the Set-Up factory defaults at the end of this chapter, with their host control code mnemonic.

• Chapter 6—Keyboard Processing—Describes the keyboard layouts, keyboard-to-host interface, keypad sequences, local functions, LEDs controls, languages, accents, scan codes, and control codes.

• Chapter 9—Communications—Describes the serial communications from the terminal to the host ports and the hardware and software handshaking.

• Chapter 10—Printer Port—Describes the parallel printer port and the switching sequences for the modes supported.

• Appendix A—VT Keyboard Legend Data

• Appendix B—Enhanced PC Keyboard Legend Data

• Appendix D—VT500 Termcap Data

If you are developing a application program for a SCO Console, then you may wish to refer to:

• Chapter 6—SCO Console Emulation—Describes the SCO Console mode, including the Control Functions relative to the SCO Console applications.

If you are using ASCII control functions for your program, then you may wish to start with Part III of the manual:

• Chapter 11—ASCII Emulations and Control Functions— Provides an overview of the ASCII emulation, the coding notation, and the symbols used in the ASCII sequence tables.

• Chapter 12—ASCII Escape Sequences—Summarizes the ASCII escape and control sequences for the various ASCII emulation modes, according to the task to be performed.

• Chapter 13—Deﬁning and Loading ASCII Character Fonts – Provides speciﬁc information on loading font banks and designing an ASCII character font.

• Appendix C—ASCII Keycodes and Local Functions

Software Product Support

If you are helping a user or programmer with an application, then you may wish to refer to the following:

• Appendix E—ANSI Control Function Index—Lists the control functions by their ﬁnal character, which makes them easier to ﬁnd in a program. The mnemonic at the end of the line item refers to a command in Chapter 5, listed in alphabetic order.

• Index—Lists control functions by mnemonic or by name and lists other subjects by topic.

• Chapter 5—ANSI Control Functions—Provides in-depth information on speciﬁc control functions.

• Chapter 6—Keyboard Processing—Lists the scan codes Make and Break sequences.

• Appendix D—VT500 Termcap Data—Provides the Termcap information for ANSI emulations.

Hardware Systems Engineer

If you are helping a user to install the terminal or to operate within a speciﬁc environment, then you may wish to refer to the following:

• Index—Search by topic.

• Chapter 1—Overview Provides a brief summary of the product.

• Chapter 2—Set-Up Describes each entry in the order that is displayed in the terminal, starting with the Actions menu and lists the modes supported. Also lists the Set-Up factory defaults.

• Chapter 9—Communications—Describes the serial communications from the terminal to the host ports, pin numbers and signals, and the hardware and software handshaking.

• Chapter 10—Printer Port—Describes the parallel printer port, pin numbers and signals, and modes supported.

Contents

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii

Part I VT520 Video Terminal

1 Overview

1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–1

1.2 Communications Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–1

1.3 Keyboard Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–2

1.4 Printer Port Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–3

1.5 Display and Text Capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–3

1.5.1 ANSI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–3

1.5.2 ASCII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–3

1.6 Enhanced Set-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–4

1.7 Desktop Productivity Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–4

1.8 Character Set Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–4

1.9 Ergonomics (Human Factors) Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–4

1.10 Field-Upgradable Firmware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–5

1.11 Comparison with previous VT Terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–6

2 Set-Up

2.1 Entering Set-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–1

2.1.1 Effects of Entering Set-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–2

2.1.2 Set-Up Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–2

2.1.3 Power-On Settings and Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–2

2.1.4 Self-test Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–3

2.1.5 Context Sensitivity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–3

2.1.6 Set-Up Summary Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–5

2.1.7 Set-Up Status Messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–5

2.1.8 Status Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–6

2.1.9 Keyboard Indicator Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–6

2.2 Set-Up Screen Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–7

2.3 Main Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–8

2.3.1 On-Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–8

2.3.2 Save Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–9

2.3.3 Restore Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–9

2.3.4 Exit Set-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–9

2.4 Actions Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–9

2.4.1 Clear Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–9

2.4.2 Clear Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–9

2.4.3 Reset this Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–10

2.4.4 Restore Factory Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–10

2.4.5 Clock, Calculator, Show Character Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–11

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2.4.6 Banner Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–11

2.5 Multiple Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–11

2.5.1 Enabling and Controlling the Session Conﬁguration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–12

2.5.2 Multiple Sessions using a Terminal Server with TD/SMP . . . . . . . . . . 2–12

2.5.3 Multiple Sessions using SSU Host Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–12

2.5.4 Opening Another Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–12

2.5.5 Restoring an Interrupted Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–13

2.5.6 Session Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–13

2.6 Session Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–13

2.6.1 Select Session. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–14

2.6.2 Session Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–14

2.6.3 Pages per Session. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–14

2.6.4 Soft Character Sets/Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–16

2.6.5 Save Settings for All and Restore Settings for All . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–16

2.6.6 Copy Settings from Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–17

2.6.7 Update Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–17

2.7 Resetting and Restoring Defaults. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–18

2.7.1 Reset Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–18

2.7.2 Restore Factory Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–18

2.8 Display Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–19

2.8.1 Lines per Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–20

2.8.1.1 Auto Resize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–20

2.8.2 Lines per Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–20

2.8.3 Review Previous Lines Buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–21

2.8.4 Columns per Page, Clear on Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–22

2.8.5 Status Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–22

2.8.6 Scrolling Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–22

2.8.7 Screen Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–22

2.8.8 Cursor Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–22

2.8.9 Cursor Coupling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–22

2.8.10 Writing Direction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–23

2.8.11 Zero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–23

2.8.12 Auto Wrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–23

2.8.13 New Line Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–23

2.8.14 Lock User Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–23

2.8.15 Show Control Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–24

2.8.16 CRT Saver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–24

2.8.17 Energy Saver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–24

2.8.17.1 Warning Bell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–25

2.8.18 Overscan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–25

2.8.19 Framed Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–25

2.8.20 Screen Alignment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–27

2.9 Color Set-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–28

2.9.1 Assign Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–28

2.9.2 Alternate Text Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–30

2.9.3 Deﬁne Colors Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–31

2.9.4 Select Color Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–32

2.9.5 ASCII Color Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–32

2.9.6 Bold and Blink Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–32

2.9.7 Erase Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–32

2.9.8 Reverse and Blank Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–33

2.9.9 Intensity Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–33

2.10 Terminal Type Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–33

2.10.1 Emulation Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–33

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2.10.2 Terminal ID to Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–34

2.10.3 VT Default Character Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–34

2.10.4 PCTerm Character Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–34

2.10.5 7-Bit NRCS Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–34

2.10.6 Transmit 7-Bit Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–34

2.11 ASCII Emulation Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–35

2.12 Keyboard Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–36

2.12.1 Keyboard Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–37

2.12.2 Deﬁne Key Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–37

2.12.2.1 Copy of Key Default—Moving a Standard Function . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–38

2.12.2.2 Customization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–39

2.12.2.3 Modiﬁer Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–39

2.12.2.4 Creating a New Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–39

2.12.2.5 Examples of Creating New Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–39

2.12.2.6 Correcting a Mistake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–40

2.12.2.7 Creating A New Alphanumeric Key or Keyboard Layout . . . . . . . . 2–40

2.12.2.8 Examples of Creating New Alphanumeric Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–40

2.12.2.9 User-Deﬁned Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–41

2.12.2.10 Programming Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–41

2.12.3 Save Key Deﬁnitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–42

2.12.4 Recall Key Deﬁnitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–42

2.12.5 Lock Key Deﬁnitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–42

2.12.6 Caps Lock Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–42

2.12.7 Keyclick, Warning Bell, and Margin Bell Volume. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–42

2.12.7.1 Visible Bell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–43

2.12.8 Keyboard Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–43

2.12.9 Auto Repeat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–43

2.12.10 Data Processing Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–43

2.12.11 Application Cursor Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–43

2.12.12 Application Keypad Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–44

2.12.13 Map PC Keyboard to VT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–44

2.12.14 Ignore Missing Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–44

2.13 Communication Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–45

2.13.1 Communication Port Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–46

2.13.2 Word Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–47

2.13.3 Parity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–47

2.13.4 Stop Bits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–47

2.13.5 Transmit Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–48

2.13.6 Receive Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–48

2.13.7 Transmit Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–48

2.13.8 Receive Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–49

2.13.9 Flow Control Threshold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–49

2.13.10 Transmit Rate Limit, Fkey Rate Limit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–49

2.13.11 Ignore Null Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–50

2.13.12 Local Echo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–50

2.13.13 Half Duplex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–50

2.13.14 Auto Answerback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–50

2.13.15 Answerback Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–50

2.13.16 Answerback Concealed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–51

2.14 Modem Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–52

2.14.1 Enable Modem Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–52

2.14.2 Disconnect Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–52

2.14.3 Modem High Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–53

2.14.4 Modem Low Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–53

2.15 Printer Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–54

2.15.1 Port Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–54

2.15.2 Print Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–54

2.15.3 Printer Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–55

2.15.4 Printer Character Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–55

2.15.4.1 DEC/ISO Character Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–56

2.15.4.2 PC Character Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–56

2.15.5 Print Extent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–56

2.15.6 Print Terminator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–56

2.15.7 Serial Print Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–56

2.15.8 2-Way Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–57

2.15.9 Transmit Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–57

2.15.10 Receive Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–57

2.15.11 Word Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–57

2.15.12 Parity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–58

2.15.13 Stop Bits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–58

2.15.14 Same as Receive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–58

2.16 Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–58

2.17 Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–59

2.18 Set-Up Factory Defaults. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–61

3 Desktop Features

3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–1

3.2 Invoking Desktop Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–1

3.3 Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–2

3.4 Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–5

3.5 Review Previous Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–7

3.6 Character Set Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–7

3.6.1 Show Character Sets feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–7

3.6.2 Banner message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–8

3.7 Keyboard Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–8

Part II VT520 ANSI Mode

4 ANSI Control Functions Summary

4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–1

4.2 Control Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–1

4.3 Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–5

4.3.1 Sequence Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–5

4.3.2 Escape Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–6

4.3.3 Control Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–6

4.3.3.1 Control Sequence Introducer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–6

4.3.3.2 Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–7

4.3.3.3 Intermediate Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–8

4.3.3.4 Final Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–8

4.3.4 Device Control Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–8

4.3.5 Using Control Characters in Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–9

4.3.6 7-Bit Code Extension Technique. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–9

4.4 Working with 7-Bit and 8-Bit Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–10

4.4.1 Conventions for Codes Received by the Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–10

4.4.2 Conventions for Codes Sent by the Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–10

4.5 Showing Control Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–11

4.6 Terminal Management Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–15

4.7 ANSI Control Function Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–16

4.7.1 Sessions Management Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–16

4.7.2 Window Management Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–17

4.7.3 Audible Attributes Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–18

4.7.4 Color Selection Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–18

4.7.5 Visual Attributes Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–20

4.7.6 Editing Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–21

4.7.7 Text Processing Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–22

4.7.8 Graphic Character Sets Control Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–25

4.7.9 Keyboard Processing Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–27

4.7.10 Printer Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–33

4.7.11 Terminal Management Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–34

4.7.12 Terminal Management—Communications Control Functions . . . . . . . 4–39

4.7.13 Terminal Synchronization Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–41

4.7.14 Reports Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–42

4.8 VT52 Mode Escape Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–45

5 ANSI Control Functions

ANSI Conformance Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–1

CBT—Cursor Backward Tabulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–3

CHA—Cursor Horizontal Absolute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–3

CHT—Cursor Horizontal Forward Tabulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–4

CNL—Cursor Next Line. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–4

CPL—Cursor Previous Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–5

CPR—Cursor Position Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–5

CRM—Show Control Character Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–6

CUB—Cursor Backward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–7

CUD—Cursor Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–7

CUF—Cursor Forward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–7

CUP—Cursor Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–8

CUU—Cursor Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–8

DA1—Primary Device Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–9

DA2—Secondary Device Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–11

DA3—Tertiary Device Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–12

DCH—Delete Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–13

DDD1, DDD2, DDD3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–14

DECAAM—Set/Reset Auto Answerback Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–15

DECAC—Assign Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–16

DECALN—Screen Alignment Pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–17

DECANM—ANSI Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–18

DECANM Exit—Exiting ANSI (VT52) Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–19

DECARM—Autorepeat Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–19

DECARR—Select Auto Repeat Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–20

DECARSM—Set/Reset Auto Resize Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–21

DECATC—Alternate Text Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–22

DECATCBM—Set/Reset Alternate Text Color Blink Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–23

DECATCUM—Set/Reset Alternate Text Color Underline Mode . . . . . . . . . 5–23

DECAUPSS—Assigning User-Preferred Supplemental Sets . . . . . . . . . . . 5–24

DECAWM—Autowrap Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–25

DECBBSM—Bold and Blink Style Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–25

DECBI—Back Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–26

DECBKM—Backarrow Key Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–26

DECCANSM—Conceal Answerback Message Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–27

DECCAPSLK—Caps Lock Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–28

DECCARA—Change Attributes in Rectangular Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–28

DECCIR—Cursor Information Report (Terminal to Host) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–30

DECCKD—Copy Key Default. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–31

DECCKM—Cursor Keys Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–32

DECCKSR—Memory Checksum Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–33

DECCOLM—Selecting 80 or 132 Columns per Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–34

DECCRA—Copy Rectangular Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–35

DECCRTST—CRT Saver Timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–36

DECCRTSM—Set/Reset CRT Save Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–37

DECDC—Delete Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–37

DECDHL—Double-Width, Double-Height Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–38

DECDLD—Dynamically Redeﬁnable Character Sets Extension. . . . . . . . . 5–39

DECDMAC—Deﬁne Macro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–45

DECDLDA—Down Line Load Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–47

DECDWL—Double-Width, Single-Height Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–48

DECECM—Erase Color Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–48

DECEKBD—Extended Keyboard Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–49

DECELF—Enable Local Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–51

DECERA—Erase Rectangular Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–52

DECES—Enable Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–53

DECESKM—Enable Secondary Keyboard Language Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–53

DECFI—Forward Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–54

DECFRA—Fill Rectangular Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–55

DECFWM—Set/Reset Framed Windows Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–56

DECHDPXM—Set/Reset Half-Duplex Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–56

DECHEM—Hebrew Encoding Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–57

DECHEBM—Hebrew/N-A Keyboard Mapping Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–58

DECHWUM—Host Wake-Up Mode (CRT and Energy Saver) . . . . . . . . . . 5–59

DECIC—Insert Column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–59

DECID—Identify Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–60

DECINVM—Invoke Macro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–61

DECIPEM—Enter/Return from IBM ProPrinter Emulation Mode . . . . . . . 5–62

DECKBD—Keyboard Language Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–63

DECKBUM—Typewriter or Data Processing Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–65

DECKLHIM—Keyboard LED’s Host Indicator Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–65

DECKPAM—Keypad Application Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–66

DECKPM—Key Position Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–66

DECKPNM—Keypad Numeric Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–67

DECLANS—Load Answerback Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–68

DECLBAN—Load Banner Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–69

DECLFKC—Local Function Key Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–70

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DECLL—Load LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–71

DECLRMM—Left Right Margin Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–72

DECLTOD—Load Time of Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–72

DECMCM—Modem Control Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–73

DECMSR—Macro Space Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–73

DECNAKB—Greek/N-A Keyboard Mapping Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–74

DECNCSM—No Clearing Screen On Column Change Mode . . . . . . . . . . . 5–74

DECNKM—Numeric Keypad Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–75

DECNRCM—National Replacement Character Set Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–75

DECNULM—Null Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–76

DECNUMLK—Num Lock Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–76

DECOM—Origin Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–77

DECOSCNM—Set/Reset Overscan Mode (VT520 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–77

DECPAK—Program Alphanumeric Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–78

DECPCCM—Page Cursor-Coupling Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–80

DECPCTERM—Enter/Exit PCTerm or Scancode Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–81

DECPEX—Print Extent Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–83

DECPFF—Print Form Feed Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–83

DECPFK—Program Function Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–84

DECPKA—Program Key Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–87

DECPKFMR—Program Key Free Memory Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–88

DECPS—Play Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–89

DECRARA—Reverse Attributes in Rectangular Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–90

DECRC—Restore Cursor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–92

DECRLCM—Right-to-Left Copy Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–92

DECRLM—Right-to-Left Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–93

DECRPAK—Report All Modiﬁers/Alphanumeric Key State . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–94

DECRPDE—Report Displayed Extent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–95

DECRPFK - Report Function Key Deﬁnition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–96

DECRPKT—Report Key Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–96

DECRPL—Review Previous Lines Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–97

DECRPM—Report Mode - Terminal To Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–98

DECRPSS—Report Selection or Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–102

DECRPTUI—Report Terminal Unit ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–104

DECRQCRA—Request Checksum of Rectangular Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–105

DECRQDE—Request Displayed Extent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–105

DECRQKD—Request Key Deﬁnition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–106

DECRQKT—Request Key Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–107

DECRQM—Request Mode - Host To Terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–108

DECRQPKFM—Request Program Key Free Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–111

DECRQPSR—Request Presentation State Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–111

DECRQSS—Request Selection or Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–112

DECRQTSR—Request Terminal State Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–113

DECCTR—Color Table Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–114

DECRQUPSS—Request User-Preferred Supplemental Set . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–115

DECRSPS—Restore Presentation State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–116

DECRSTS—Restore Terminal State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–117

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DECRSTS—Restore Terminal Color Table State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–118

DECSACE—Select Attribute Change Extent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–119

DECSASD—Select Active Status Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–120

DECSC—Save Cursor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–120

DECSCA—Select Character Protection Attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–121

DECSCL—Select Conformance Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–122

DECSCLM—Scrolling Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–123

DECSCNM—Screen Mode: Light or Dark Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–123

DECSCP—Select Communication Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–124

DECSCPP—Select Columns Per Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–125

DECSCS—Select Communication Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–126

DECSCUSR—Set Cursor Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–127

DECSDDT—Select Disconnect Delay Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–128

DECSDPT—Select Digital Printed Data Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–129

DECSED—Selective Erase in Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–129

DECSEST—Energy Saver Timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–130

DECSEL—Selective Erase in Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–131

DECSERA—Selective Erase Rectangular Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–132

DECSFC—Select Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–133

DECSIN—Set Icon Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–134

DECSKCV—Set Key Click Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–135

DECSLCK—Set Lock Key Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–135

DECSLPP—Set Lines Per Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–136

DECSLRM—Set Left and Right Margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–137

DECSMBV—Set Margin Bell Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–138

DECSMKR—Select Modiﬁer Key Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–139

DECSNLS—Set Number of Lines Per Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–140

DECSPMA—Session Page Memory Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–141

DECSPP—Set Port Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–142

DECSPPCS—Select ProPrinter Character Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–143

DECSPRTT—Select Printer Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–144

DECSR—Secure Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–144

DECSRC—Secure Reset Conﬁrmation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–146

DECSSCLS—Set Scroll Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–146

DECSSDT—Select Status Display (Line) Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–147

DECSSL—Select Set-Up Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–148

DECST8C—Set Tab at Every 8 Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–149

DECSTBM—Set Top and Bottom Margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–149

DECSTR—Soft Terminal Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–150

DECSTGLT—Select Color Look-Up Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–151

DECSTRL—Set Transmit Rate Limit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–152

DECSTUI—Setting Terminal Unit ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–153

DECSWBV—Set Warning Bell Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–154

DECSWL—Single-Width, Single-Height Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–154

DECSZS—Select Zero Symbol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–155

DECSWT—Set Window Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–156

DECTABSR—Tab Stop Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–157

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DECTCEM—Text Cursor Enable Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–157

DECTID—Select Terminal ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–158

DECTME—Terminal Mode Emulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–159

DECTSR—Terminal State Report—Terminal to Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–160

DECTSR—Terminal State Report (Color Table Report) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–161

DECTST—Invoke Conﬁdence Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–162

DECUDK—User Deﬁned Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–163

DECUS—Update Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–169

DECVCCM—Vertical Cursor-Coupling Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–170

DECXCPR—Extended Cursor Position Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–170

DECXRLM—Transmit Rate Limiting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–171

DL—Delete Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–172

DSR—Device Status Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–173

DSR—Cursor Position Report (CPR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–173

DSR—Data Integrity Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–174

DSR—Extended Cursor Position Report (DECXCPR response) . . . . . . . . . 5–174

DSR—Keyboard Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–175

DSR—Macro Space Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–176

DSR—Memory Checksum Report (DECCKSR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–177

DSR—Operating Status Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–177

DSR—Printer Port Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–178

DSR—User-Deﬁned Keys Report (VT Level 4 or higher) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–179

ECH—Erase Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–179

ED—Erase in Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–180

EL—Erase in Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–180

HPA—Horizontal Position Absolute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–181

HPR—Horizontal Position Relative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–181

HT—Horizontal Tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–182

HTS—Horizontal Tab Set. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–182

HVP—Horizontal and Vertical Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–183

ICH—Insert Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–183

IL—Insert Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–184

IND—Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–184

IRM—Insert/Replace Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–185

KAM—Keyboard Action Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–185

LNM—Line Feed/New Line Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–186

LS—Locking Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–187

MC—Media Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–188

NEL—Next Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–191

NP—Next Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–191

PP—Preceding Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–192

PPA—Page Position Absolute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–192

PPB—Page Position Backward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–193

PPR—Page Position Relative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–193

RIS—Reset to Initial State . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–194

RM—Reset Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–195

S7C1T—Send C1 Control Character to the Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–196

S8C1T—Send C1 Control Character to the Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–196

SCS—Select Character Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–197

Designating Character Sets (SCS Sequences) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–197

SD—Pan Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–200

SGR—Select Graphic Rendition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–201

SRM—Local Echo: Send/Receive Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–204

SS—Single Shifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–205

SM—Set Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–206

SU—Pan Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–207

TBC—Tab Clear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–207

VPA—Vertical Line Position Absolute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–208

VPR—Vertical Position Relative. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–208

6 SCO Console Emulation

6.1 SCO Console Emulation Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–1

6.1.1 Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–2

6.1.1.1 Local Function Keys in SCO Console Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–2

6.1.1.2 PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–2

6.1.1.3 VT Keyboard Key Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–6

6.2 VT520 SCO Console Control Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–7

SCODFK—Deﬁne Function Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–7

SCODPCC—Display PC Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–8

SCORC—Restore Saved Cursor Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–9

SCOSC—Save Current Cursor Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–9

7 Character Sets

7.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–1

7.2 Character Sets Supported . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–1

7.2.1 VT Graphic Character Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–1

7.2.2 PCTerm Graphic Character Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–2

7.2.3 Control Character Sets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–3

7.2.4 Character Set Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–3

7.2.5 Characters Not in a Character Set. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–3

7.3 VT Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–4

7.3.1 Selecting Character Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–4

7.3.2 Character Set Mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–4

7.4 PCTerm Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–4

7.4.1 Selecting Character Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–4

7.4.2 Character Set Mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–5

7.5 SCO Console Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–5

7.6 Soft Character Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–5

7.6.1 Designing a Soft Character Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–6

7.6.2 Coding the Soft Character Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–9

7.6.3 Downloading Soft Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–13

7.6.4 Designating the Soft Character Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–14

7.6.5 Soft Character Set Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–15

7.6.6 Clearing a Soft Character Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–16

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8 Keyboard Processing

8.1 Overview—Keyboard Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–1

8.2 DEC VT Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–2

8.3 VT Layout - PC Term Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–2

8.4 Enhanced PC Layout - PCTerm Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–3

8.5 Enhanced PC Layout - VT Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–3

8.5.1 DEC VT Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–3

8.5.2 IBM PC Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–4

8.6 Main Key Array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–4

8.6.1 Character Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–4

8.6.2 Tab Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–4

8.6.3 Modiﬁer Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–4

8.6.4 Caps Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–5

8.6.5 Left Alt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–5

8.6.6 Right Alt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–6

8.6.7 Alt Gr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–6

8.7 Top Row Function Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–6

8.8 Editing Keypad Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–6

8.9 Cursor Keypad Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–7

8.10 Numeric Keypad Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–7

8.11 Local Function Key Defaults . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–9

8.11.1 Numeric Keypad Compose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–14

8.11.2 Accessibility Aids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–15

8.12 Controlling Keyboard LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–16

8.13 Keyboard Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–17

8.14 Switching Between Keyboard Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–18

8.14.1 Keystroke Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–20

8.14.2 Non-Spacing Accent Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–20

8.14.3 German . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–21

8.14.4 Hebrew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–21

8.15 Keystation Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–21

8.16 Scan Codes Sent in PCTerm Mode for EPC Keyboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–23

8.17 Scan Codes Sent in PCTerm Mode for VT Keyboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–27

8.18 Control Codes and Keystrokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–28

9 Communications

9.1 Introduction to Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–1

9.2 Physical Link Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–2

9.2.1 25-Pin Connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–2

9.2.2 DEC Corporate Modular Jacks (MMJ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–3

9.2.3 Connector Pins Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–3

9.2.3.1 Transmitted Data–TXD L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–4

9.2.3.2 Received Data–RXD L . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–4

9.2.3.3 Request to Send–RTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–4

9.2.3.4 Clear to Send–CTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–4

9.2.3.5 Data Terminal Ready–DTR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–5

9.2.3.6 Data Set Ready–DSR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–5

9.2.3.6.1 Modem Initiated Disconnect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–5

9.2.3.6.2 Terminal Initiated Disconnect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–5

9.2.3.6.3 Modem off line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–6

9.2.3.7 Receive Line Signal Detector–RLSD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–6

9.2.3.8 Speed Indicator–SPDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–6

9.2.3.9 Speed Select–SPDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–7

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9.2.4 Half-Duplex Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–7

9.2.5 Supported Modem Conﬁgurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–7

9.2.5.1 CCITT Public Switched Telephone Network (2-wire only) . . . . . . . 9–7

9.2.5.2 CCITT Dedicated Line (2-Wire / 4-Wire) Data Network . . . . . . . . . 9–7

9.2.5.3 European Public Circuit Switched Data Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–8

9.2.5.4 European Public Packet Switched Data Network (PSDN) . . . . . . . 9–8

9.3 Data Link Layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–9

9.3.1 7- /8-Bit VT100/VT520 Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–9

9.3.2 Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–10

9.3.2.1 Receive Buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–10

9.3.2.2 Flow Control Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–10

9.3.2.2.1 No Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–11

9.3.2.2.2 XOFF/XON or XPC Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–11

9.3.2.2.3 DSR/DTR Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–12

9.3.2.2.4 Software and Hardware Combined Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . 9–12

9.3.2.2.5 Flow Control Threshold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–12

9.3.2.3 Show Control Character Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–13

9.3.2.4 Set-Up on Flow Control Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–13

9.3.2.5 When Disconnect Occurs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–13

9.4 Features that Affect Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–13

9.4.1 Clear Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–14

9.4.2 Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–14

9.4.3 Line Disconnection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–14

9.4.4 Break . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–15

9.4.4.1 Received Break . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–15

10 Printer Port

10.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–1

10.2 Serial Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–1

10.2.1 Serial Port Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–1

10.3 Parallel Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–2

10.3.1 Parallel Port Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–3

10.4 Print Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–3

10.4.1 Printer Controller Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–4

10.5 Print Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–4

10.6 Transmitting Print Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–4

10.6.1 DEC ANSI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–4

10.6.2 IBM ProPrinter or Compatible Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–5

10.6.2.1 Data Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–5

10.6.3 DEC ANSI with IBM ProPrinter Emulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–6

10.6.3.1 Data Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–7

10.7 Printer Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–7

10.8 Suspending Print Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–7

10.9 Aborting Print Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–7

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11 ASCII Emulations and Control Functions

11.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–1

11.2 ASCII Emulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–1

11.2.1 Enhanced Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–2

11.3 Coding Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–2

11.3.1 Communication Flow Control with PCTerm Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–3

11.3.2 Protecting Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–3

12 ASCII Escape Sequences

12.1 ASCII Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–1

12.2 Terminal Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–4

12.3 Keyboard Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–5

12.4 Screen Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–10

12.4.1 Rectangular Area Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–28

12.4.1.1 Draw Rectangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–31

12.4.1.2 Swap/Copy/Move . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–31

12.5 Printing/Sending Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–32

12.5.1 Sending Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–32

12.5.2 Graphics Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–36

13 Deﬁning and Loading ASCII Character Fonts

13.1 Character Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–1

13.1.1 PCTerm on US Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–1

13.1.2 WYSE and ADDS Enhanced Personalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–1

13.2 Loading, Deﬁning, and Selecting Character Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–3

13.3 Designing a Character Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–5

A VT Keyboard Legend Data

A.1 Compose Processing and Non-spacing Diacritical Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–1

A.2 VT Keyboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–1

B Enhanced PC Keyboards

B.1 Summary of Non-Spacing Diacritical Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–1

B.2 Enhanced PC Keyboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–2

C ASCII Keycodes and Local Functions

C.1 PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–1

C.2 DEC VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–6

C.3 ASCII Local Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–9

D VT520 Termcap Data

D.1 Termcap Emulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–1

D.1.1 Termcap Data: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–1

D.1.2 Terminfo Data: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D–2

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E ANSI Control Function Index

E.1 ANSI Index by Final Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E–1

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Index

Figures

1–1 Sample VT Keyboard Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–2

1–2 Sample PC Keyboard Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–2

2–1 Set-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–1

2–2 Set-Up Language Selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–2

2–3 Set-Up Summary Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–5

2–4 Main and Terminal Actions Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–7

2–5 Session Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–13

2–6 Session Page Memory Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–15

2–7 Lines per Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–21

2–8 Framed Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–26

2–9 Screen Alignment Display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–27

2–10 Color Set-Up Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–28

2–11 Assign Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–29

2–12 Alternate Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–30

2–13 Deﬁne Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–31

2–14 ASCII Emulation Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–35

2–15 Keyboard Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–36

2–16 Deﬁne Key Editor, Select Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–38

2–17 Communication Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–45

2–18 Communications—Port Select . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–46

2–19 Communication Transmit Speed Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–48

2–20 Communication Fkey Rate Limit Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–49

2–21 Communication Answerback Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–51

2–22 Modem Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–52

2–23 Modem High Speed Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–53

2–24 Printer Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–54

2–25 DEC/ISO Character Sets Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–56

2–26 PC Character Sets Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–57

2–27 Tab Set-Up Dialog Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–59

3–1 Calculator with VT Keyboard Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–3

3–2 Calculator with PC Keyboard Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–4

3–3 Clock Function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–6

4–1 7-bit ASCII Code Table with C0 Control Characters Font (Left

Half). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–14

4–2 8-bit ASCII Code Table with C1 Control Characters Font (Right Half)

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7–1 Character Cell Sizes for 24-Line by 80- and 132-Column Fonts . . . . . . 7–6

7–2 Character Body Sizes for 24-Line by 80- and 132-Column Fonts . . . . . 7–8

7–3 Example of an Uppercase D (24-Line by 80-Column Font) . . . . . . . . . . 7–10

7–4 Sixel-to-ASCII Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–13

8–1 VT Keyboard Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–1

8–2 PC Keyboard Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–1

8–3 Editing Keypad Legends on DEC and PC Layouts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–7

8–4 VT Layout - Keystation Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–21

8–5 VT Layout - Typical North American Key Legends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–22

8–6 Enhanced PC Layout - Map Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–22

8–7 Enhanced PC Layout - Typical North American Key Legends . . . . . . . 8–22

9–1 25-Pin Port Pin Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–2

9–2 MMJ Modular Jack Pin Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–3

10–1 Parallel Printer Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–2

13–1 Process of Selecting Character Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–2

A–1 Austrian/German VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–2

A–2 Belgian/French VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–3

A–3 British/U.K./North American VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–4

A–4 Canadian-French VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–5

A–5 Czech VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–6

A–6 Danish VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–7

A–7 Dutch VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–8

A–8 Finnish VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–9

A–9 Flemish VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–10

A–10 Greek VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–11

A–11 Hebrew VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–12

A–12 Hungarian VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–13

A–13 Italian VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–14

A–14 Norwegian VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–15

A–15 Polish VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–16

A–16 Portuguese VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–17

A–17 Romanian VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–18

A–18 Russian VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–19

A–19 SCS VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–20

A–20 Slovak VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–21

A–21 Spanish VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–22

A–22 Swedish VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–23

A–23 Swiss-French VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–24

A–24 Swiss-German VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–25

A–25 Turkish-F VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–26

A–26 Turkish-Q VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–27

B–1 Austrian/German Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–3

B–2 Belgian Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–4

B–3 British/U.K. Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–5

B–4 Canadian-English/North American Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . B–6

B–5 Canadian-French Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–7

B–6 Czech Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–8

B–7 Danish Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–9

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B–8 Dutch Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–10

B–9 Finnish Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–11

B–10 French Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–12

B–11 Greek Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–13

B–12 Hebrew Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–14

B–13 Hungarian Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–15

B–14 Italian Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–16

B–15 Latin American Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–17

B–16 Norwegian Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–18

B–17 Polish Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–19

B–18 Portuguese Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–20

B–19 Romanian Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–21

B–20 Russian Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–22

B–21 SCS Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–23

B–22 Slovak Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–24

B–23 Spanish Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–25

B–24 Swedish Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–26

B–25 Swiss-French Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–27

B–26 Swiss-German Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–28

B–27 Turkish Enhanced PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B–29

Tables

1–1 VT520/25 Font Sizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1–5

2–1 Error Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–3

2–2 Context Sensitive Set-Up Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–4

2–3 Display Set-Up Features and Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–19

2–4 Lines per Page vs. Lines per Screen When Auto Resize is Set . . . . . . 2–20

2–5 Default Graphic Renditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–32

2–6 ASCII Emulation Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–35

2–7 Keyboard Features and Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–36

2–8 Communication and Modem Features and Control Functions . . . . . . . 2–45

2–9 Printer Features and Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–55

2–10 Set-Up Factory Defaults. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2–61

3–1 ASCII Emulation Character Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3–7

4–1 C0 (7-Bit) Control Characters Recognized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–2

4–2 C1 (8-Bit) Control Characters Recognized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–3

4–3 8-Bit Control Characters and Their 7-Bit Equivalents . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–4

4–4 Control Character Displayed on Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–11

4–5 VT52 Mode Escape Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4–45

5–1 VT52 Escape Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–18

5–2 DECDLD Parameter Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–41

5–3 Settings Supported by DECRQM, DECRPM, RM, and SM . . . . . . . . . 5–100

5–4 ANSI Modes for DECRQM, DECRPM, SM, and RM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–109

5–5 DEC Private Modes for DECRQM, DECRPM, SM, and RM. . . . . . . . . 5–110

5–6 Terminal’s Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–150

5–7 Terminal Emulation Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–159

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5–8 VT Keyboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–165

5–9 PC Keyboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–166

5–10 VT and PC Keyboard Function Keys Compared . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–167

5–11 Keyboard Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–175

5–12 Mapping Character Sets with Locking Shifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–187

5–13 Designating a Character Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–198

5–14 Character Set Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–198

5–15 Visual Character Attribute Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5–201

6–1 SCO Console Mode with ASCII Keycodes and Scancodes . . . . . . . . . . . 6–1

6–2 Local Functions on VT and Enhanced PC Layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–2

6–3 SCO Console Mode Function Key Default Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–3

6–4 SCO Console Mode Main Keypad Default Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–3

6–5 SCO Console Mode Numeric Keypad Default Codes, Num Lock Off. . 6–5 6–6 SCO Console Mode Numeric Keypad Default Codes, Num Lock On . . . 6–5

6–7 SCO Console Mode Editing Keypad Default Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–6

6–8 SCO Console Mode Cursor Keypad Default Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6–6

7–1 Character Cell Sizes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–7

7–2 Guidelines for Designing Soft Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–8

7–3 Converting Binary Code to an ASCII Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7–11

8–1 Scan Codes for VT Layout in PCTerm Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–2

8–2 VT Style Layout vs. Enhanced PC Style Layout Modiﬁer Keys . . . . . . 8–5

8–3 Editing Keypad Sequences for Enhanced PC Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–7

8–4 PC Layout Numeric Keypad Sequences - VT Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–8

8–5 PC Layout Numeric Keypad Sequences - PC Style, Numeric Mode . . . 8–9

8–6 Local Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–9

8–7 VT Keyboard Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–17

8–8 Enhanced PC Keyboard Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–17

8–9 8-bit Character Set Initialization when Keyboard Language is

Changed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–18

8–10 7-bit Character Set Initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–19

8–11 Non-Spacing Accent Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–20

8–12 Control Codes and Keystrokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8–28

9–1 EIA Interface Signals and Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–2

9–2 MMJ Interface Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–3

9–3 Flow Control Threshold Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9–13

10–1 Parallel Connector Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10–2

11–1 Symbols Used in ASCII Terminal Escape Sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11–2

11–2 Commands that may Carry Protect Mode Features through Pages . . . 11–4

11–3 Commands that Can Move the Cursor to Protected Area . . . . . . . . . . . 11–5

11–4 Commands that Cannot Move Cursor into Protected Area. . . . . . . . . . 11–5

12–1 Serial Port Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–1

12–2 Terminal Management Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–4

12–3 Keyboard Processing Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–5

12–4 Redeﬁnable Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–9

12–5 Screen Processing Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–10

12–6 Data Protection Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–20

12–7 Cursor Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–21

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12–8 ASCII Editing Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–25

12–9 Local Edit Mode Function Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–25

12–10 Tab Stop Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–26

12–11 Page Edit Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–27

12–12 Rules for Locating Rectangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–29

12–13 Rectangle Area Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–30

12–14 Send Data Delimiters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–32

12–15 Delimiters for Other Personalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–33

12–16 Print/Send Control Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–33

12–17 Printing Data Control Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–35

12–18 Graphic Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12–36

13–1 Display and Load Character Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–1

13–2 Loading Font Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–3

13–3 Design a Character Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13–5

A–1 VT Keyboard Non-Spacing Diacritical Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A–1

B–1 Enhanced PC Keyboard Non-Spacing Diacritical Marks . . . . . . . . . . . B–1

C–1 WYSE and TVI Modes Function Keys for PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . C–1

C–2 WYSE and TVI Modes Function Keys for PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . C–1

C–3 WYSE and TVI Modes Editing Keys for PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–2

C–4 WYSE and TVI Modes Cursor Keys on PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–2

C–5 WYSE and TVI Modes Numeric Keys for PC Keyboard, NumLock =

Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–2

C–6 WYSE 160 and TVI Modes Numeric Keys for PC Keyboard, NumLock

= On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–3

C–7 ADDS A2 Function Keys on PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–3

C–8 ADDS A2 Editing Keys on PC Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–4

C–9 ADDS A2 Cursor Keys on PC Keyboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–4

C–10 ADDS A2 Mode Numeric Keypad Keys on PC Keyboard; NumLock =

Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–4

C–11 ADDS A2 Mode Numeric Keypad Keys on PC Keyboard; NumLock =

On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–5

C–12 WYSE and TVI Modes Function Keys for DEC VT Keyboard . . . . . . . C–6

C–13 WYSE and TVI Modes Editing Keys on DEC VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . C–6

C–14 WYSE and TVI Modes Cursor Keys on DEC VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . C–7

C–15 WYSE and TVI Modes Numeric Keypad PF Keys on DEC VT

Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–7

C–16 ADDS A2 Function Keys on DEC VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–7

C–17 ADDS A2 Editing Keys on DEC VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–8

C–18 ADDS A2 Cursor Keys on DEC VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–8

C–19 ADDS A2 Numeric Keypad PFKeys on DEC VT Keyboard . . . . . . . . . C–8

C–20 Local Functions in ASCII Code Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–9

C–21 Local Functions in PC Scancode Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C–11

E–1 ANSI Control Functions Index by Final Character . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E–1

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VT520 Video Terminal

This part includes the following chapters:

• Chapter 1, Overview

• Chapter 2, Set-Up

• Chapter 3, Desktop Features

PartI

1.1 Introduction

The VT520 is a low-cost, multi-session, text video terminal featuring enhanced keyboard and communications ﬂexibility, providing up to four sessions at a time. Two or more sessions can be assigned to the same communication port when Terminal Device/Session Management Protocol (TD/SMP) is used to multiplex the sessions. Each session has its own framed window, window title, and icon name.

The VT520 has a deﬁne key editor that allows you to reprogram any key on the keyboard.

The VT525 color terminal allows you to assign different colors to the various windows and to combinations of character attributes. You can select colors from color look-up tables or create your own color combinations. Unless speciﬁcally mentioned in this manual the term VT520 also refers to the VT525 color model.

The product has a 25-pin stacked male/female RS-232 connector (EIA-232), two 6-pin EIA-423 (MMJ) connectors, and a Centronics parallel connector. The RS-232 and the EIA-423 ports are used.

The VT520 also has power management features that exceed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Energy Star requirements for saving energy.

Overview

1.2 Communications Features

The terminal provides:

• Three bidirectional, asynchronous serial communication ports; one of which (Comm 3) can be used for a local printer.

• Baud rates from 300 to 115.2K baud

• Centronics parallel printer port

• 25-pin serial connectors

• Two MMJ serial connectors

• Expanded ﬂow control options:

- Software ﬂow control using XON/XOFF or XPC

- Hardware ﬂow control using DTR/DSR

Overview 1–1

Overview

1.3 Keyboard Features

The VT520 offers a choice of two keyboard layouts—a VT keyboard layout (LK411) or an enhanced PC keyboard layout (PCXAL). The VT keyboard (Figure 1–1) and the PC keyboard (Figure 1–2) differ in the placement of some of the keys, like the Control key. A VT keyboard has 20 function keys,F1through main keypad, while a PC keyboard has 12 function keys,F1through

Figure 1–1 Sample VT Keyboard Layout

North American/United Kingdom (Word Processing Version)

F2 F3

F20

, above the

F12

F8 F9

F10

F13

F11

F12

Help

F14

F17

F19

F20

F18

(ESC)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0

Tab

Ctrl

Shift

A S D F G H J K L

> <

Compose Character

$ %

Z X C V B N

Alt

Function

( )

Alt Function

}

]

;

’

Shift

Compose Character

I O PT Y UW E R

Figure 1–2 Sample PC Keyboard Layout

I O PT Y UW E R

North American

F8 F9 F10

( )

: ;

F11 F12

BackSpace

}

]

Enter

" ’

Shift

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The keyboard has the following features:

• An IBM PS/2-compatible 6-pin mini DIN connector.

• Keyboard keys that can be reprogrammed to send single characters, to send character sequences, or to invoke local functions (Hold, Copy and Paste, Remove, Insert, Print Page, Toggle Autoprint, Set-Up, Break, and so on).

• A local user-deﬁned key editor. Key deﬁnitions can be saved in nonvolatile memory.

• Eight levels of user-deﬁned function keys using any combination of Shift, Control, and Alt.

• 971 bytes of nonvolatile memory available for custom user-deﬁned keys (UDKs)/Session, which cannot be reallocated. The maximum length for a UDK deﬁnition is 255 bytes.

1.4 Printer Port Features

The terminal has the following printer port features:

• A Centronics parallel printer port.

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1.3 Keyboard Features

• IBM ProPrinter support.

• Bidirectional serial communication ports.

• Baud rates from 300 to 115.2K baud.

• Null characters that can pass as data to the printer port.

1.5 Display and Text Capabilities

The terminal has both ANSI and ASCII display and text processing capabilities. The features of each are listed below.

1.5.1 ANSI

• Macro capability

• Display: 26, 42, or 53 data lines

• Selectable page size: 24, 25, 36, 42, 48, 50, or 72 lines

• Full status line (occupies one data line)

• Separate keyboard indicator line

• Three pages of 24 lines

• SCO Console mode

1.5.2 ASCII

• Terminal emulations: WYSE: 325 (color model only), 50, 50+, 60 native, 160 text only, 120, 150, PCTerm Televideo: TVI 950, 925, 910+ Applied Digital Data Systems: ADDS A2

• Dim and invisible character attributes

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1.6 Enhanced Set-Up

The terminal provides an enhanced menu-based Set-Up, allowing common features to be accessed easily from a single screen. All Set-Up features are host controllable to allow remote conﬁguration. The terminal also has a means to lock out the local setup key.

Set-Up menus are available in English, French, German, Italian, or Spanish. For details, see Chapter 2, Set-Up.

1.7 Desktop Productivity Features

The terminal has the following desktop productivity features:

• Local copy and paste (not available in PCTerm mode)

• Time of day clock (host or locally set, no battery back up)

• Desktop calculator with decimal, octal, and hex conversions

• Display character set tables.

• Review previous data lines.

For details, see Chapter 3, Desktop Features.

1.8 Character Set Support

In addition to the traditional Digital graphic character sets (DEC Multinational, NRCS, and so on), the VT520 supports Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Turkish, most Eastern European languages, and PC character sets. For details, see Chapter 7, Character Sets.

1.9 Ergonomics (Human Factors) Features

The terminal is designed to provide a high-quality human interface and longterm reliability at low cost. The VT520 offers 72 Hz refresh, full overscan. The terminal has the following features:

• 35.5 cm (14 in) ﬂat face, antiglare CRT screen

• Improved resolution of 802 432 with overscan.)

• 72 Hz refresh

• Overscan

• Additional fonts (see Table 1–1)

• Tilt/swivel base

• Choice of keyboards

• Accessibility aids

480 pixels. (The mono VT520 also has 800

Not available in color model.

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