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CP/M-86 terminal emulation

The CP/M-86 terminal emulator uses a superset of VT52 codes:

ESC 0

disable the status line (containing the clock).

ESC 1

enable the status line.

ESC A

cursor up, unless at the top

ESC B

cursor down, unless at the bottom

ESC C

cursor right, unless at the right-hand edge

ESC D

cursor left, unless at the left-hand edge

ESC E

clear screen and home cursor

ESC H

home cursor

ESC I

cursor up, scroll down if at top

ESC J

delete to end of screen

ESC K

delete to end of line

ESC L

insert a line, moving current line and all lines below down by 1

ESC M

delete current line, moving all lines below up by 1

ESC N

delete character at cursor position, moving all characters right of it one character to the left

ESC Y r c

Move cursor to row r-32, column c-32

ESC a m

Select screen mode m

ESC b c

Set foreground colour c

ESC c c

Set background colour c

ESC d h l

Redirect CONIN

ESC e h l

Redirect CONOUT

ESC f h l

Redirect AUXIN

ESC g h l

Redirect AUXOUT

ESC h h l

Redirect LST

All redirections combine h and l to form a device number:

                 0, 1 = CRT
                 2,3  = COM1-2
                 4,5,6= LPT1-3
                 7    = CRT
                 8    = light pen
                 9,10 = CRT
	

ESC j

Save cursor position

ESC k

Restore cursor position

ESC l

Erase all characters on the current line

ESC m

Enable cursor

ESC n

Disable cursor

ESC o

Erase characters up to the cursor position

ESC p

Select black text on white background

ESC q

Select white text on black background

ESC r

Select bright text

ESC s

Select flashing text

ESC t

Cancel flashing text

ESC u

Cancel bright text

ESC v

Allow wrapping at end of line

ESC w

Do not wrap at end of line

ESC x

Mode MONO

ESC y

Mode CO80

ESC / bh bl

Call INT 10h, function 0Bh. ie:

• ESC / 00h n - set border
• ESC / 01h n - set CGA palette

ESC : scancode 0-terminated ASCII

Redefine a function key.