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RE: Trouble in RXVT with line wrap
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- Subject: RE: Trouble in RXVT with line wrap
- From: "Robinow, David" <drobinow at dayton dot adroit dot com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 11:27:10 -0400
If this stuff interests you you might like http://vt100.net and the link
to Richard Shuford's Terminal Information Archive.
> From: Jonadab the Unsightly One [mailto:jonadab@bright.net]
> # The unescaped open bracket is just that. It is part of a multi-character
> # escape sequence (\033 is ESCape) defined by the terminal control
mechanism
> # emulated by the Cygwin console code (layered over the Windows character
> # subsystem window) or the RXVT terminal emulator (something in the vt1xx
or
> # vt2xx series, I guess).
>
> These look _distinctly_ like the standard ANSI escape sequences.
> DOS people have been using them (via ANSI.SYS) for aeons. I used
> to use these with PC-DOS 3.3 on an ITT XTRA (4.77 MHz) back in
> the day. I'm pretty sure my ITT DOS manual lists them in an
> appendix. They've been around at _least_ that long, so I'm
> sure finding listings of them on the internet is trivial. I
> think they were developed by ANSI way back before ISO was an
> entity of note.
> ...
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