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From: mac@uvacs.UUCP (Alex Colvin)
Newsgroups: net.arch
Subject: Re: dumber terminal device drivers
Message-ID: <2023@uvacs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 18:56:40 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 11 18:56:40 1985
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Organization: U.Va. CS dept.  Charlottesville, VA
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Providing a bit mask for terminating characters isn't enough.  For
instance, it's usually the character AFTER an ESC that's the terminating
character.  The ESC[ ... control sequences can be arbitrarily long, and
appear to terminate on an alphabetic character.

It's a mess.