TCF - Terminal Control Functions ================================ Users' Guide ============ TCF is a very simple task to allow you to control the characteristics of your terminal. TCF must be installed and is then executed by TCF n1,n2,n3... where n1, n2, n3... are octal numbers. TCF merely converts the numbers and outputs the relevant binary codes in a string. Thus, for example, TCF 30 will output an octal 30 to the requesting screen, which will clear it (if it is a SYSTIME MKII or MKIII). This can most usefully be used in commandfiles to ensure the terminal is in a defined state at various points. TCF can report two possible errors:- 1. SYSTEM DIRECTIVE FAILURE This means that TCF was not run in the correct manner, and TCF could not retrieve the MCR commandline. 2. NON-OCTAL VALUE This means that some character other than a valid octal digit or a comma was specified on the commandline. TCF - Terminal Control Functions ================================ System Guide ============ TCF simply gets the input commandline from MCR, scans it from left to right converting each octal number into a binary value in an internal buffer, and then outputs that buffer to the screen. It is a non-privileged task, with a taskname of ...TCF which uses one unit (which must be assigned to TI:). It is also recommended that it be given a priority above 50.