From: ron@mlfarm.UUCP (Ronald Florence)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: WP-2 Word Processor
Message-ID: <375@mlfarm.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 89 18:20:20 GMT
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Organization: Maple Lawn Farm, Stonington, CT
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I recently purchased a Tandy WP-2 for note-taking in libraries and
archives.  Although Tandy markets the little machine as a Word
Processor, the ROM is in many ways more powerful than my old Model
200, which finally died.  I do have some questions about the WP-2, and
hope someone from this group can perhaps help me:

1.  Is there any way to speed up the screen display when the WP-2 is
in terminal mode?  Even at 9600 baud, the screen display is painfully
slow.

2.  Is there a way to transfer text files from the WP-2 as Unix files,
e.g., with each line of text terminated with a LF?  The command to
convert files to "ascii" from WP-2 format does not put anything at the
end of lines.  I finally wrote an xmodem module for the Unix machine
which puts linefeeds into uploaded files as needed, but it would be
cleaner if the lines were sent terminated by the WP-2.

3.  Can anyone add to the following termcap description which I put
together mostly by guessing?

    wP|wp-2|Tandy WP-2:\
	:bs:cd=\EJ:ce=\EK:cl=\EH\EJ:cm=\EY%+ %+ :\
	:ku=^^:kd=^_:kl=^]:kr=^\:up=\EA:nd=\EC:ho=\EH:\
	:sg#1:so=[:se=]:co#80:li#8:\

The WP-2 is capable of displaying reverse video, but I can't figure
out the escape sequences.  A few other capabilities, like reverse
scrolling, would also be welcome.

Thanks in advance for any help by email.  (Alas, we do not receive this
newsgroup.)
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Ronald Florence			 ...{hsi,rayssd}!mlfarm!ron