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Re: Brain-damaged Terminal Contest

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From: N. R Tiedemann
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1986 13:39
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>       Don't know about Most brain-damaged, but the BLIT (dmd 5620, AKA
> ...
> 	1. No known termcap escape for reverse vide -- if someone knows it,
> 	   please give it to me

	According to my Terminal User's Guide dated August 1985, under the
	character attribute section. The Escape sequence for reverse video
	is ESC[7;7m  (this is 6 characters long). 4;4 is underline 0;0 is
	normal video. The cryptic method in which it is described does not
	mean the terminal is brain-damaged, rather the manual writer.

	I use a blit everyday with its multiple windows and good graphics,
	I can write text in one, draw my figures in another, troff them in 
	a third and have a "proof" window (which takes troff output and
	formats everything exactly how it will look in the printed output)
	going in a fourth window. All while reading netnews. This ability
	(with the exception of reading netnews) has greatly increased my
	productivity especially in writing software drivers and assembly
	language code. I can talk to the computer, and to my emulator board
	from the same terminal.

	I hate the keyboard, but that's another story. 

		Norm Tiedemann
		AT&T Bell Labs
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From: normt@ihlpa.UUCP (N. R Tiedemann)
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Subject: Re: Brain-damaged Terminal Contest
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Date: Fri, 21-Nov-86 08:39:21 EST
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