NewDeal Hot Tip 1102
Telecommunications\E[B 7 \E[D 9The `\E[B' line instructs NewComm to take action 7 when receiving the \Escape[B' sequence. With these lines in place, you can do "full-screen ANSI" text editing on your local BBS.
When you edit your .TC files to customize or "improve" them, NewComm expects to see ASCII TABs, not blank spaces on each line. For example, the line above really consists of
\ E [ B ASCII-TAB 7If your text editor "expands" tabs into spaces, NewComm will not interpret the .TC file correctly, and your NewComm window will consist of a continuous line of BBS text, instead of separate lines. Some editors that work are Microemacs for the PC and NewDeal's Text File Editor.
Last Modified 2 Mar 1999