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From: "Robinow, David" <drobinow AT dayton DOT adroit DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Trouble in RXVT with line wrap
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 11:27:10 -0400 
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 If this stuff interests you you might like http://vt100.net and  the link
to Richard Shuford's Terminal Information Archive.

> From: Jonadab the Unsightly One [mailto:jonadab AT bright DOT net]
 
> # The unescaped open bracket is just that. It is part of a multi-character

> # escape sequence (\033 is ESCape) defined by the terminal control
mechanism 
> # emulated by the Cygwin console code (layered over the Windows character 
> # subsystem window) or the RXVT terminal emulator (something in the vt1xx
or 
> # vt2xx series, I guess). 
> 
> These look _distinctly_ like the standard ANSI escape sequences.
> DOS people have been using them (via ANSI.SYS) for aeons.  I used
> to use these with PC-DOS 3.3 on an ITT XTRA (4.77 MHz) back in
> the day.  I'm pretty sure my ITT DOS manual lists them in an
> appendix.  They've been around at _least_ that long, so I'm 
> sure finding listings of them on the internet is trivial.  I
> think they were developed by ANSI way back before ISO was an 
> entity of note. 
> ... 
 

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