12 Jun
2006
12 Jun
'06
1:21 p.m.
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 10:11:07PM -0700, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
If you had ever attached a DEC VT05 (glass teletype)
to your Sixth
Edition or Seventh Edition Unix system you would understand why the
Usenix monthly magazine is named ";login:". The user prompt contains
escape sequences to control a model 37 Teletype, but the VT05 doesn't
respond to them, and in fact ignores the <esc> character and just
displays the semicolon and colon part of the escape sequences.
ISTR that 2.9BSD on the Pro 350 does this too.
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David Evans dfevans(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Research Associate http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge