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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Behaviour of setjmp/longjmp and reg (now keyboards)
Message-ID: <7667@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 9 Feb 89 19:43:18 GMT
References: <25@torsqnt.UUCP> <225800122@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <225800122@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>>>>> The subject being escape sequences from terminals and their
>problems >>>>>>>>

>No multicharacter sequences are necessary. The computer it is attached to
>makes good use of having the complete state of the keyboard at hand.

Yes, but suppose you want to send information to a different machine.
Do you send an image of the keyboard on each transition or should the
the other machine maintain the state info?  How are you going to send
it without multibyte sequences?  Why should a remote machine treat
your keyboard any differently than the one connected to it (or even
know the difference)?

Les Mikesell