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- From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
- Subject: Re: 386bsd: 16550, color, vt100
- References: <1992Aug19.195743.13499@engage.pko.dec.com> <sand.714341461@milton> <1992Aug20.222741.9968@ugle.unit.no>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 10:00:13 GMT
- Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de
- Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
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- In <1992Aug20.222741.9968@ugle.unit.no> arnej@Lise.Unit.NO (Arne Henrik Juul) writes:
-
- [...]
- >The sequence: ESC [ 3 ; <number> x
- >means: set the PC color mode to <number>, where <number> will be used
- >in this way:
-
- >| 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
- >| blink | background |bright | foreground |
- >| (fg) | color | (fg) | color |
- >The standout mode works another way: Here, the foreground is given
- >first (as a number from 0-15) followed by background as another number
- >from 0-15. The same color combination would be:
-
- Warning: this is incompatible with vt100. A vt100 emits an identification
- string with ESC [ x, which may cause much problems. In a recent posting
- of a vt100 console replacement (by Helmut Michaelis in alt.sources), we
- had a problem that "color escape sequences" like the above could crash the
- kernel (because of a special bug). In my next release of KEYCAP, a pccons
- replacement for national keyboards, this suspicious ESC x will be gone. You'll
- read in the documentation about this then.
-
- >--
- >Arne H. Juul -- arnej@lise.unit.no -- University of Trondheim, Norway
-
- Holger
-
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