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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Anybody know how to do this stuff?
Summary: Want "ESC ] l text ESC \"
Message-ID: <855@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 9 Dec 89 08:10:52 GMT
References: <13920020@hpfelg.HP.COM> <13920023@hpfelg.HP.COM> <4698@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
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In article <13920023@hpfelg.HP.COM> koren@hpfelg.HP.COM (Steve Koren) writes:
Steve> Well, this point is a little unclear to me.  Who "owns" the CLI window?

In article <4698@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
Peter>Its instance of console.device.
Peter>The *best* situation would be a console.device that took escape sequences
Peter>for "set window title", "set menu", and so on.

I second that suggestion.  Something like:

ESC ] l title-for-window ESC \	To change the title on an open window
ESC [ 2 t			To iconify the window
ESC ] L label ESC \		To change label of iconified window
ESC ] I DH0:file.info ESC \	To use different icon image
ESC [ 1 t			To go from icon back to normal window
ESC [ 3 ; 5 0 ; 1 0 0 t		To move upper left corner to y=50, x=100
ESC [ 4 ; 2 0 0 ; 6 4 0 t	To make window full size (200x640 pixels)
ESC [ 5 t			Window to front
ESC [ 6 t			Window to back
ESC [ 7 t			Redraw window
ESC [ 8 ; 1 2 ; 4 0 t		Change size to 12 rows of 40 columns

Does any system other than Sun use these escape sequences?
Has anyone hacked up a console.device to use something like this?
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