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From: jaltman@columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman)
Subject: Re: kermit-95 linux terminal type emulation problem
Date: 2 Jan 2001 03:05:01 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
Message-ID: <92rggt$81$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>
To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <92rak2$h8b$1@news1.Radix.Net>,
Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net> wrote:
: While at one point the Linux console had some pretentions to being VTxxx based,
: that was a few years ago - recent changes have been made apparently in a purely
: ad hoc manner (the sequence in question is used to set the cursor shape).
: For your amusement -
:
: VGA-softcursor.txt, from the 2.2 kernel
Thanks for the reference. Just what we love to see in a terminal
definition, an ad hoc moving target. At least they used a 'private'
sequence.
Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer C-Kermit 7.1 Alpha available
The Kermit Project @ Columbia University includes Secure Telnet and FTP
http://www.kermit-project.org/ using Kerberos, SRP, and
kermit-support@kermit-project.org OpenSSL. SSH soon to follow.