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Additional Screen Functions

Several additional functions are available to manipulate the screen display. These should be included if the terminal supports these features. The functions are: Insert-line (al), Delete-line (dl), Non-destructive-space (nd), Backspace-cursor (bc), Cursor-down (do), Cursor-up (up), Set-width-132 (W3), and Set-width-80 (W8).

After "vi" has rendered the cursor invisible, "ve" is used to make it visible.

If your terminal does not have both a normal and a bright cursor, then set the "ve" entry to turn the cursor on and do not use the "vs" entry.

NS should be added to the terminal database file entry for a terminal that does not scroll if the lower right corner of the screen is filled. This tells the ACUCOBOL-GT program that it is all right to use this position. NS is the complete sequence
( :NS: ).


The VT-100 supports only one of these functions: Non-destructive-space. This is accomplished by sending "ESC[C". Our current entry is now:

vt100|vt100|DEC VT-100:\

:cl=\E[;H\E[2J:ce=\E[K:cd=\E[J:\
:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:\
:nd=\E[C: