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From: hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
Newsgroups: net.info-terms
Subject: Re: ASCII and ANSI terminals, what is the difference??
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Date: Sun, 15-Dec-85 20:30:16 EST
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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,

   American National Standards Institute has many standards, one of
   which is the American Standard Code for Information Interchange,
   and another one (something like X3.64 ?) is for cursor control, etc.
   including the proper escape sequences.
> 
> -- 
> Vince Hatem          	               
   --henry schaffer