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- Command: ET
- Purpose: Edit your terminal parameters
- Available at: All command prompts (>)
-
- The ET command allows you to tell CNet about the terminal (or terminal program) that you are using. Here's a description of each individual item:
-
- Computer type Your actual computer type.
- Graphics set Options are ASCII (just the basic character set), IBM
- (a few extra graphics characters), AMIGA International
- (a few extra accented letters, etc), SkyPix (same as IBM,
- with the additional support of SkyPix graphics), and
- Commodore C/G (use this ONLY if you are using a 64 or 128
- in a graphics terminal mode).
- ANSI support ANSI is an international standard for screen manipulation
- (cursor movement, text movement, color changes). If your
- terminal supports this, you should select this option to
- ON. You know that you DO NOT support this if you see many
- [0m[1;34m and the like on your screen. Your terminal must
- support ANSI to see any of the special graphics files, and
- to use the CNet visual text editor.
- Line feeds When some terminals receive a carriage return (0D), they
- move the cursor automatically to the NEXT line. In this
- case, line feeds are unnecessay, as they will create
- double-spacing. In other others, a carriage return only
- moves the cursor to the beginning of the SAME line. In this
- case, line feeds are REQUIRED.
- Screen width The actual number of characters that fit across your screen.
- Unless you have a special configuration, this number should be
- either 40 or 80. If you use a terminal which uses part of the
- screen for a window border or something, you may have to
- choose 78 or 79.
- Screen hieght The actual number of lines of text from top to bottom of your
- screen. Usually, this number is 24. In order to use the ANSI
- visual editor from CNet, it MUST be set to 24.
- ANSI tabs A 'tab' is every 8th character on the screen. If your
- terminal understands this, and will go to the next tab
- automatically when it receives a TAB (09), you should set this
- option to on. Otherwise, CNet will have to send enough spaces
- to get the cursor to move.
- ANSI color If you are using a monochrome display, you may wish to set
- this option to NO. Some colors may appear to faint to read
- without a color display.
-