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From: vch@rruxo.UUCP (Kerro Panille)
Newsgroups: net.info-terms
Subject: Re: ASCII and ANSI terminals, what is the difference??
Message-ID: <138@rruxo.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 14-Dec-85 17:37:09 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 14 17:37:09 1985
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>Can someone please explain the difference between ASCII and ANSI protocol
>terminals?  Do ANSI terminals not use the ACSII character set and 
>encoding?

ANSI is an acronym (I'm not sure what), but it's a standard like ASCII,
except that ASCII refers to the character encoding, and ANSI is a standard
for such things as cursor addressing. It was an attempt to remove the 
problem of termcaps and terminfos by making all terminals act the same.
Too bad most terminal manufacturers haven't taken this up. A vt100 is
an ANSI terminal, as well as any vt100 compatible. Note that the vt52
isn't ANSI, but it is ASCII. BTW, I've never heard of an ANSI terminal
that wasn't ASCII.

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