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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: JRComm (Was Re: AMIGA too slow for speeds higher than 9600 Baud? HELP!)
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Date: 7 May 90 22:13:59 GMT
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In article <18781@estelle.udel.EDU> new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
>In article <24552@usc.edu> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>>Termcap and Terminfo have no concept of a status line.
>
>Check your man pages.   Both have status-line parameters, including
>has-status, enable-status, disable-status, escapes-ok-on-status, etc.

Go back to the context: VT100 and ANSI (both Amiga and IBM PC ANSI.SYS,
which is what terminal emulators emulate). VT100 termcaps and erminfos
do not use the status line features.

>>ANSI doesn't have a concept of status line AT ALL, so forget about status lines
>>in general.
>
>I would find this hard to believe, since terminals with status lines were out
>before ANSI standardized the escape sequences.  I would go back to the
>original ANSI doc to check, myself.    -- Darren

Again, the original posting by Jack mentioned VT100 and ANSI as implemented
by the Amiga ISO/ANSI and the IBM PC ANSI.SYS devices. Neither one has a 
concept of status line.  

So I'll repeat, as far as terminal emulators that do VT100 or emulate
the features of the Amiga ISO/ANSI or IBM ANSI.SYS drivers, 'status lines'
do not apply.  For all practical applications, status lines have hardly
ANY use whatsoever in the above contexts.

-- Marco
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