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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: net.internat
Subject: Re: Standards
Message-ID: <786@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 18:40:25 EST
Article-I.D.: mmintl.786
Posted: Thu Nov 14 18:40:25 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 16-Nov-85 03:42:28 EST
References: <762@mmintl.UUCP> <225@opus.UUCP>
Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Organization: Multimate International, E. Hartford, CT
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In article <225@opus.UUCP> rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) writes:
>> One needs an escape character from an 8-bit Acsii code.  The obvious
>> choice for this is decimal 255 (hex FF)...
>
>What's wrong with ESC (stands for "escape"!) for an escape character?  If
>we're going to talk standards, we had better start with EXISTING standards.
>You can find REAMS of existing information on code extension by standard
>techniques.

OK, but I only want one byte following for the function code.  None of this
<ESC>[32;]p stuff.

Frank Adams                           ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
Multimate International    52 Oakland Ave North    E. Hartford, CT 06108