Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Termcap question Keywords: termcap Message-ID: Date: 2 Mar 90 18:02:57 GMT References: <5658@star.cs.vu.nl> <671@mwtech.UUCP> <5708@star.cs.vu.nl> <12264@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 8 In article <12264@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes: > I'm curious as to the kind of terminal you have that requires a 0 byte > for some non-padding function. I've never encountered this myself.. The Televideo line of terminals (notable for the magic cookie glitch) use a 3-byte sequence for programming the cursor keys. Null bytes in this sequence are not transmitted, and so can be used to terminate it much as they do in C. A pity the usages conflict. -- _--_|\ Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . / \ \_.--._/ Xenix Support -- it's not just a job, it's an adventure! v "Have you hugged your wolf today?" `-_-'