Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC830713); site log-hb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!mcvax!enea!log-hb!hans From: hans@log-hb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.hp Subject: Re: Thinkjet seedn/ Humph. - (nf) Message-ID: <149@log-hb.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-May-84 20:02:20 EDT Article-I.D.: log-hb.149 Posted: Wed May 9 20:02:20 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 12-May-84 11:05:32 EDT References: <3244@fortune.UUCP> Organization: TeleLOGIC Nyn{shamn SWEDEN Lines: 15 [] Quite. NEVER NEVER assume that anybody else has a terminal, or other piece of hardware, that is compatible with yours. Why, even vt100's are usually not compatible with vt100's. And a vt102 is never compatible with itself 2 minutes ago... Adding escape-sequences and/or control characters to messages, apart from nice little critters like \r,\n,\t, is merely destructive. -- {decvax,philabs}!mcvax!enea!log-hb!hans Hans Albertsson, TeleLOGIC AB Box 1001, S-14901 Nynashamn, SWEDEN