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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: ESC[@ Ansi Insert Char - Where Does Cursor Go?
Message-ID: <9663@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 17 Feb 89 20:03:28 GMT
References: <1117@rlgvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1117@rlgvax.UUCP> dennis@rlgvax.UUCP (Dennis.Bednar) writes:
-If you position the cursor to row 2, column 1, of an ANSI
-terminal, and send the escape sequence ESC[@, is the cursor
-supposed to remain on row 2, column 1 (ie over the newly
-inserted blank character), or is it supposed to move down to
-row 3 column 1?

It's supposed to remain at row 2, column 1.

-Is there a document that describes the ANSI escape sequences
-rigorously?  Can someone e-mail me a copy of there is one?

ANS X3.64 is presumably available from the American National
Standards Institute.  I doubt that there's an on-line version.