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From: gordon@sneaky.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: termcaps *!#@$#!!
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Date: Sun, 27-Jan-85 14:15:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 27 14:15:00 1985
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> /* Written  1:23 pm  Jan 23, 1985 by watdcsu!rsellens in sneaky:net.micro */
> 
> Re: no termcaps for a *computer*
> 
> In general you can't define a termcap for a computer, but there are
> some machines which have screen handling capabilities built into
> the console device driver. In particular ANSI.SYS on the IBM PC is
> supposed to make the pc console react to ANSI terminal escapes.
> ...
> 
> Rick Sellens
> /* End of text from sneaky:net.micro */

That's funny, I wasn't aware that the console device driver was implemented
in hardware that couldn't be gotten around by any means.  There are plenty
of different operating systems that run on the IBM PC, and Xenix, among others,
never heard of ANSI.SYS, even if it has similar capability.  It also
isn't unheard of for terminal emulator programs to go direct to the hardware
on both screen and communications devices to speed things up, get around
operating system bugs, or just do things differently.

					Gordon Burditt
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