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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ANSI ESCAPE SEQUENCES
Message-ID: <14438@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 12 Nov 90 13:48:09 GMT
References: <102019@cc.utah.edu> <1746@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1746@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl> demoel@ruunsa.fys.ruu.nl (Ed de_Moel) writes:
-The ANSI standard for device control (not just CRT's but any
-output device!) exists since 1979. It really amazes me
-that UNIX people, unlike the rest of the world keep using
-non-standard (and hence non-portable) code using termcaps
-libraries.

It amazes me that people really think that X3.64 has been universally
implemented on all display devices.  The slightest understanding of
termcap would demonstrate otherwise.