Registry for terminal DA responses?

[Patrick Finnegan]

Michael Sokolov declared on Sunday 12 June 2005 10:48 pm:
> My question is: does anyone know if such a registry exists and where
> can one apply for a DA code assignment?  TIA,

Uhh, registry? Yeah, right.

You can start your own registry, I guess.  If there was one, it was at 
DEC and only held the codes used by terminals that DEC produced.  
Boundless now sells VT5xx terminals; they at some point purchased DEC's 
old terminal line/division/etc.

You do realize, there were terminals that weren't VT100 compatible (at 
least in their native mode), like Wyse 50/60 terminals, ADM 3/5s, IBM 
3151s, Televideo 925s, ...  They didn't do the "CSI c" command; they 
might have had a "DA" method, but I'm doubtful it was the same as what 
DEC did.

You might try looking at the BSD termcap/terminfo database for a listing 
of what kind of responses there are.

I'd assume that (non-DEC) terminals that were put in a VTxxx emulation 
mode responded to that with the same response that a real VTxxx would 
give.

Any reason you don't want to use the (so-called) "ANSI" vt-100 type 
sequences or those from, say, a vt525, for your 'termainal application'?

Pat
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