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From: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Graphic characters in Norton Utilities SYS-V
Keywords: Norton Utilities, graphic characters
Message-ID: <1990Jul30.160502.26181@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Date: 30 Jul 90 16:05:02 GMT
References: <175@hafro.is> <1990Jul26.011852.1180@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> <1990Jul27.104059.12955@pegasus.com> <1990Jul27.165315.13531@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> <1OY4DT3@xds13.ferranti.com> <1990Jul29.235310.6138@pcrat.uucp>
Reply-To: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA
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In article <1990Jul29.235310.6138@pcrat.uucp> rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes:
>Maybe I will jump in.  As long as the application still fully supports ETI on
>things other than the console, I really can't see anything wrong with making
>console response as snappy as console response under, say, DOS.  Modulo the
>fact that the necessary console ioctl's are totally non-portable between the
>various UNIXes.  I'm going to post a programmers summary of this situation in
>a few days.

Thanks.  We do indeed fully support ETI, and the Utilities work perfectly
well on any terminal describable by terminfo.

By the way, the ioctl's for ISC Unix at AT&T screen control are pretty much
compatible, it's SCO that, because of bugs and interface changes, is so
different.

-- 
John R. Levine, Segue Software, POB 349, Cambridge MA 02238, +1 617 864 9650
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