Re: Looking for suggestions on WY-325ES support

[Daniel Weaver]

At 05:17 PM 11/12/2002 -0500, L. Dee Holtsclaw wrote:
>We've got several Wyse 325ES color terminals here. There is an
>NCurses-supplied terminfo but it has no color support included.

I am the guy that wrote the terminfo's for all the Wyse terminals.
All the terminals, except the wy325.  It was designed after I left
the company.  It was a low end color terminal.  To the best of my
knowledge the wy325 is a wy350 with more personalities.  The wy350
has a particular annoying color scheme.  Here is what I put into the
terminfo file about the 350:

#
#       The Wyse 350 is a Wyse 50 with color.
#       Unfortunately this means that it has magic cookies.
#       The color attributes are designed to overlap the reverse, dim and
#       underline attributes.  This is nice for monochrome applications
#       because you can make underline stuff green (or any other color)
#       but for true color applications it's not so hot because you cannot
#       mix color with reverse, dim or underline.
#           To further complicate things one of the attributes must be
#       black (either the foreground or the background).  In reverse video
#       the background changes color with black letters.  In normal video
#       the foreground changes colors on a black background.
#           This terminfo uses some of the more advanced features of curses
#       to display both color and blink.  In the final analysis I am not
#       sure that the wy350 runs better with this terminfo than it does
#       with the wy50 terminfo (with user adjusted colors).
#

If the Wyse uses the same color support as the Wyse 350 you are not
going to be happy.

>
>The real problem, however, is that there's no way to distinguish between
>the left-arrow key and backspace or the down-arrow and a line-feed. I
>presume the person(s) who designed the native emulation were either
>total morons or didn't have enough coffee that day.

The 325 matches all the other Wyse ASCII products:  50, 60, 150 etc.
At the time the 325 came out it was just a matter of compatibility.

>
>Anyway, my choices seem to be:
>(1) Reprogram the left-arrow and down-arrow keys on every terminal
>(which apparently cannot be done remotely).

Not recommended.

>or
>(2) Setup the terminal to use VT220 emulation and bastardize a terminfo
>defn to include color support. This requires a Programmer's Reference
>for the terminal but it's still in production and I should have one
>ordered within a day or two.

This may be your best bet.

>
>So, has anyone done anything like this or have any related suggestions?

Do your best to specify the Wy-370.  This terminal has much better color
support.

I don't have a wy325 to test.  Try the VT-220 personality and make sure
that it supports color.  The VT-220 after all is a B&W terminal.





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Dan Weaver, ZNYX Networks
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