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From: jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Desdinova)
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Subject: Re: ANSI Terminal program
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Date: 24 Oct 90 16:52:28 GMT
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In article <2247@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church) writes:
>I ANSI standard and VT100 different? I don't have anyplace to try it but
>had heard that they were actually the same. On the other hand, the person
>may have meant that vt100 was *becoming* the ansi standard or some such.

These days, ANSI and VT100 are technically synonymous. However, the ANSI
found on IBMs and such is a mutant of true ANSI or VT100. IBM changed it
to support the IBMs text display more cleanly. Thus, it's not true VT100.
BUT... they're close enough that a color VT100 will work when calling an
ANSI BBS, you just won't get the IBM graphics characters.

>bob church
>bchurch.oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu


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