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From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.info-terms
Subject: Re: ASCII and ANSI terminals, what is the difference??
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Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 00:19:12 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 20 00:19:12 1985
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Reply-To: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
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In article <346@weitek.UUCP> neal@weitek.UUCP (Neal Bedard) writes:
>The actual standard(s) in question are ANSI X3.64-1977 and ANSI X3.41-1974.
>
>The ANSI *protocol* referred to is a command set of built out of ASCII
>characters (is ASCII actually spelled out in the ANSI standard, or is the
>character set arbitrary?) I've never seen a non-ASCII `ANSI' terminal,
>anyway... 

ANS X3.64 is an extension of ANS X3.41 (ASCII), so an ANSI terminal is
by definition an ASCII terminal.  ANS X3.64 is a particular control
sequence repertoire defined using the scheme described in another
standard (whose number I do not recall), titled something like "Code
Extension Techniques for American Standard Code for Information
Interchange".  This latter standard is the one that defines the syntax
of escape sequences.  ANS X3.64 specifies the semantics of a particular
set of escape sequences which use that syntax.
-- 
    Barry Margolin
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