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From: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Escape sequences
Message-ID: <151@decvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 19:19:58 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 18 19:19:58 1987
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Reply-To: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow)
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Ronald Blanford (context@june.cs.washington.edu) suggests changing
the Minix cursor positioning escape sequence to <ESC> y x.

If any changes are made, I would *strongly* recommend using the ANSI/ISO
sequences.  These are now standard throughout the industry.  The simplest
are:
	<ESC> [ <line> ; <column> H
where <ESC> is hex 1B, '[' and 'H' represent themselves, and <line>
and <column> are ascii decimal strings, with the upper-left corner
being 1,1.  Note that this can be expanded to tall/wide displays
without running out of bits.  If you work in an eight-bit environment,
<ESC> [ can be replaced by the <CSI> character (hex 9B).

Martin Minow
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