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From: johnl@ima.ISC.COM (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ANSI device driver
Message-ID: <649@ima.ISC.COM>
Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 14:25:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: ima.649
Posted: Thu Aug 13 14:25:52 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Aug-87 09:53:39 EDT
References: <5138@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine)
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Summary: no such thing as a complete ANSI driver

In article <5138@j.cc.purdue.edu> usenet: !pur-ee!edward (edward@ga.ecn.purdue.edu) writes:
>     Does anyone know if the ANSI driver that is included with MS-DOS is a 
>full implementation of the ANSI standard.  I have a copy of the standard and
>it lists about three times as many command sequences as does my DOS manual.

I have never seen a full implementation of the ANSI standard for escape
sequences.  The standard suffers from a severe case of union-itis, that is,
it contains the union of all features that anybody ever asked for.  Common
ANSI terminals such as the VT-100, IBM 3101, and their descendants, implement
a larger set of functions than does the DOS ANSI driver, but still far from the
whole thing.
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