On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Vito Miliano wrote: > DP> Ah, I didn't realize you wanted something that would accept all > DP> the usual serial terminal control codes. Bob's not your man in > DP> that case... > > Yes, I'd like regular console output to work, so I can use normal > console apps as a stepping stone. Does BOB work "well enough" to run > normal console apps? No, I don't think so. It recognizes all the right ascii characters (though it lacks a full ascii set) for you to get recognizable output from a serial line, but the BOB-II (which I use, obsoleted by the BOB-III) is definately not ready out of the box for console apps. Most significantly of all it doesn't handle ansi (or vt100) codes for char positioning, etc. It has it's own control code set for that. You'd need to do some kind of translation - either in software or hardware (assuming your apps would also understand a funny screen resolution like 11x28 or whatever it is (I don't recall at the moment). But it's small and while not cheap, it's at least still within hobbyist price range. Don Papp -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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