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From: robert@gitpyr.UUCP (Robert Viduya)
Newsgroups: net.info-terms
Subject: Re: ASCII and ANSI terminals, what is the difference??
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Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 15:59:08 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 20 15:59:08 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Dec-85 04:57:19 EST
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Reply-To: robert@gitpyr.UUCP (Robert Viduya)
Organization: Office of Computing Services, Georgia Tech
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>neal@weitek.UUCP (Neal Bedard) (neal@weitek.UUCP, <346@weitek.UUCP>):
> 
> 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... 
> 

I read the X3.64 standard a few months ago and I don't believe that ASCII is
explicitly spelled out in all it's gory detail.  Rather, the document has as
prerequisites a couple of other ANSI standards (X3.41 was one of them).  I
guess this means that an ANSI X3.64 terminal is, by definition, an ASCII
terminal as well.

As for availability of the document, you might try a library.  I found the
documents in the GaTech library.  I also recommend looking up the ISO 6429
standard, which is ISO's version of X3.64.  The two standards are almost
identical as far as control sequences go, with the sole exception that 6429
has added provisions for setting color by extending the Set-Graphic-Rendition
control sequence.  I'm not completely sure, but I believe that the ISO standard
is a superset of the ANSI standard.  I also found the ISO standard a lot easier
to read than the ANSI standard.

				robert
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