On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, Larry Boyd wrote:
 
> On 24 Jul 96 at 15:38, Dr. Ferenc Nagy wrote:
>
> > Gentle list members:
> >
> > Please give me escape sequences setting HP 700/92 terminals in 132 columns
> > and back in 80 columns mode. Who knows the sequence and intrinsic call in
> > Pascal detecting whether the setting was successful, and returns whether
> > current setting is 80 or 132 columns.
>
> Esc&w6f80X      Set 80-column mode
> Esc&w6f132X     Set 132-column mode
>
Thank you, Larry and Neil.
I still need to sense the mode, because I have two types of terminals:
the other is PC under AdvanceLink, which is is unable to write 132 columns.
I want to draw ASCII plots and I do not want to see ugly broken tables,
I'd rather branch in my programs according to the detected mode.
 
> "Each problem solved creates the opportunity to solve the next problem
>           that the last solution created." - Richard Pascale
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                                              Frank
 
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