Re: RFC: Illegal Characters in File Names

[Jan Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>]

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On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 17:09:41 -0400, Guy wrote:
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> >> BTW, if your terminal is misconfigured badly enough to feed program
> output
> >> back as input, you really ought to fix it, and not just because of
> ls(1)...
> 
> >That means, that the terminal should never respond to any escape
> >sequences sent to it. In reality, it responds to some...
> 
> So, I guess using a screen editor is out!  No cursor control!  Can't use vi
> anymore.  Everyone must hack their terminals and/or terminal emulators to
> play safe with Linux!  You got to be kidding!!!!!!  Wait until Microsoft
> finds out about this!  Bill will laugh so hard he will shit!

But a curses application does not need the terminal to respond to
anything!!!! It only needst the terminal to obey the commands.

Actualy I failed to find any sequences that would cause response from
the terminal in termcap(5). Such sequences are not needed.
(With partial exception of mouse input -- but that is input, you can't
force particular).

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						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb@ucw.cz>

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