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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Telcom Program of the Gods
Message-ID: <10999@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 9 Sep 89 01:38:30 GMT
References: <19626@gryphon.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <19626@gryphon.COM> lbotez@pnet02.gryphon.com (Lynda Botez) writes:
>Is ANSI emulation feasible on an Apple GS?  If so, why hasn't anyone written a
>com program that would handle it?  It looks great on an IBM.

ANSI is the American National Standards Institute, and cannot be emulated
on an Apple IIGS or an IBM PC.

ANSI X3.64 is a standard for use of escape sequences on ASCII terminals;
DEC's VT100 terminal was one of the first to support a subset of these
sequences (plus an additional standard-conforming set of DEC-specific
extensions).  There are Apple II communication programs that emulate the
VT100.

There may be an ANSI standard for color extensions to X3.64, but if so
I haven't heard about it.  (If anybody knows for sure, I'd like to be
informed.)  I don't know why this is generally being called "ANSI" in
the IBM PC world, because it sure is confusing.