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Re: Document describing ANSI "escape" sequences

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From: Leonard Erickson
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 1990 05:44
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mregeste@amo.Wichita.NCR.COM (Mark Regester) writes:

>I need a complete source of ANSI "escape" sequences.  I have a DOS
>reference manual that came with my PC, but it only describes a few
>of the sequences that define color and how to move the cursor.

>As a starter what does this do?  <ESC>[=20;0C

You've got a mistaken assumption here, caused by poor documentation.
IBM "escape" sequences may be semi ANSI compatible, but they aren't
"really" ANSI.

So the question needs to be asked "What does the sequence do on *what*?"

From what docs I have, <ESC>[= is used for video mode commands. But
all the IBM supported ones are of the form <ESC>[=#h or <ESC>[#l
Yours is <ESC>[=#;#C so whatever it is, it is *not* an IBM sequence.

It may do something under NANSI or one of the other extended ANSI
programs. More likely it is a *real* ANSI sequence, in which case I would
suggest contaxting ANSI directly. 
-- 
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From: leonard@qiclab.uucp (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: ncr.sys.pcdos,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Document describing ANSI "escape" sequences
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