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From: david@ics.COM (David B. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xterm Control Sequences - where is the document ?
Summary: xterm control sequences
Message-ID: <2562@ics.COM>
Date: 22 Aug 89 14:24:18 GMT
References: <396@eedsp.gatech.edu> <5840021@wdl1.UUCP> <3644@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Organization: Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc., Cambridge MA
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In article <3644@helios.ee.lbl.gov>, envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) writes:
< 
< There is no Xterm Control Sequences document for X11. 
< This question has been asked about a hundred times and answered
< as many. 8-)
< 
< It has been promised that "as soon as there is time" it will
< be worked on, but I imagine with R4 taking up everyone's time
< it may be a while before it appears.
< 
< If anyone has time they might be good enough to take the one
< from X10 and update it for X11 (using the Source, Luke).

Two documents which I have found useful and which seem to match well the X11
xterm (but probably were based on the X10 "Xterm Control Sequences" 
document) are the appendix D to the OPENLOOK documentation from ATT
and the appendix D to the 'Using X on Sony NEWS' handbook distributed
with that hardware.
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