Changing vt100, vt52, and bbs Settings with emset

The emset command is used to change settings that affect how the terminal emulation behaves. The emset command needs two arguments: the setting you want to change and an argument indicating the value to give that setting:
 
emset setting argument

The vt100, bbs, and vt52 terminal emulators use these emset settings:

emset (no setting or argument)

Displays current terminal emulation attributes. The display will look like this:

Emulation is vt52
Answerback ""
Getmode: raw
Printkey is ""
Width: 80
background=0, foreground=1
lines=23,mrw=24,lrw=24

emset help or emset ? (no argument needed)

Displays a brief list of the emset command arguments.

emset answerback text

Sets the answerback message to text. (An answerback is a form of identification required by some remote systems and is sent in response to an ENQ character.)

emset getmode raw, text, printer, or all

Selects the type of data that is written to your get file (if one is open).

raw means all incoming characters are written to the get file, just as they are received. This is the default (and the way get normally works when terminal emulation is not in use).

text writes only printable characters, carriage returns, and linefeeds to the get file. Unprintable characters, such as screen formatting commands, are discarded.

printer writes only characters that would normally be directed to the terminal's printer port.

all writes all printable characters, and all nonprintable characters are written in a printable format. Screen control characters are written as printable representations (see Appendix B of the Autolog User's Guide for a list of the screen control codes).

emset local "text"

Sends text to the terminal emulator in off-line, or local, mode. This is comparable to using the setup mode of a real VT-100 terminal and can be used by advanced users to change any setting that Autolog's terminal emulation supports.

emset printkey "key"

Defines a "hot key" that can be used while you are in talk mode to take a "snapshot" of the screen. The screen shot will be written to your get file (if one is open) or to your terminal's auxiliary printer port (if no get file is open and your terminal has a printer port). Use this key is handy for capturing heavily formatted screen information that is not file-oriented.

emset reset (no argument)

Resets the terminal emulator to its initial, default settings.

emset width W (or 132) or N (or 80)

Sets the width of the screen display to either Wide (132 columns) or Narrow (80 columns).