Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!sco!chapman
From: chapman@sco.COM (Brian Chapman Mx321)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: ansi cursor controls
Message-ID: <371@sysco>
Date: 25 Mar 88 19:55:39 GMT
References: <325@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: chapman@sco.COM (Brian Chapman Mx321)
Organization: The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
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In article <325@ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM> mike (Michael Lodman) writes:
< I am using SCO Xenix and I am trying to port some screen tools
< which use ansi escape sequences from DOS to Xenix. Unfortunately,
< Xenix console does not seem to support the sequence for save and
< restore cursor position. Is there a workaround or undocumented
< feature I could use  to do this?

Save and restore cursor are not defined by ANSI.
DOS uses "^[[s" and "^[[u" for save and restore cursor.
SCO Xenix uses "^[7" and "^[8" for the same funtionality.