[Simh] off-topic basic translator

[khandy21yo]

Tgat looks like vt52 sewuence. To work on more terminal screens you might want to upgrade to ansii vt100 at leasr. Some terminals dont understand the vt52 codes.

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From Dan Gahlinger <dgahling at hotmail.com> 
Date: 08/05/2015  1:56 PM  (GMT-07:00) 
To simh at trailing-edge.com 
Subject Re: [Simh] off-topic basic translator 
 
Another issue I'm running into which should be fun, is VT escape sequences

eg:
170 PRINT ESC+"Y"+CHR$(53)+CHR$(33);\INPUT #1;"PRESS RETURN TO CONTINUE";A$

That puts the cursor at a specific place on screen,
these were built on VT-52 and VT-100 terminals with fixed screen size.
using Linux you can get ANSI support, but the screen could be a vastly different size,
of course, we can just make it run like normal.

the other problem is the escape sequences themselves may not work any more.
they seem to work in Linux with ANSI enabled,
will they work on Mac CLI (maybe) or DOS/Windows ? portability is important.

But, I'm not going to do a ton of work writing cursor routines for a dozen basic programs from the 80's.

and btw freepascal has incredible string handling for those doubters out there...

Dan.
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