Re: DECterm special escape sequences ?

In article <57e37$45949f05$cef8887a$22822@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, JF Mezei
<jfmezei.spamnot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Bob Harris wrote:

<http://h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V51B_HTML/MAN/MAN5/0201____.HTM>

Is this the escape sequence you were looking for?

Esc [ p1 ; p2 ; p3 t
1 Restore (de-iconify) window.
2 Minimize (iconify) window.


Many thanks. Unfortunatly, this escape sequence does not work in my
parralel universe. Esc [ 2 t makes the window 2 lines long. Esc [ 1 t
makes it 1 line long. Esc [ 51 t makes it 51 lines long.

Esc[3;100;100t makes it 3 lines long. (instead of moving window to pixels
100, 100).

I guess there is nobody left in VMS engineering who knows even where the
code for DECTERM is stored (maybe it is on some disk in India already ?)

1. Please stop whining. You've already done enough whining to last
several lifetimes.

You haven't received, free of charge, immediate answers to your
questions. So naturally it becomes an opportunity to bash the very group
of people most likely to be able to help you. Clever, very clever.

2. The folks working on DECwindows are part of VMS Engineering. Most of
them happen to be in India. They know exactly where the code is.

Do you expect them to drop their real work to provide an immediate answer
about an undocumented non-feature to a bigoted, ill-mannered, non-paying,
non-customer? Perhaps you really do live in an alternate universe.

3. The DECwindows code and build environment are mostly separate from VMS
proper. That's always been the case. That means most of those you
consider "real" VMS engineers couldn't easily seek answers to your
questions. If they felt like helping you. Perhpas some of them do.


Considering that Digital is *THE* standard for VT100, I would have though
that they would have made public ALL the escape sequences to ensure that
the VT100 protocol lives on.

VT100 and the associated ANSI standard are very well documented and easy
to find in public locations.

What you seek isn't VT100 stuff. DECterm is based on the VT300 series,
IIRC. But DECterm has its own extensions, which may not be part of any
general standard.

I don't even know if DECterm has escape sequences for this stuff.

But when you consider that even within Digital the secrets resulted in
OSF/DEC-UNIX/Tru64 using different escape sequences than for VMS, it says a
lot about the company.

Blah, blah, blah.
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