From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Escape sequences & console
Date: 1 Mar 2001 11:48:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <97m92n$hpm$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <"3a9e8dcd3b72e6a5@amyris.wanadoo.fr> <Pine.LNX.4.31.0103011919490.23240-100000@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>
Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0103011919490.23240-100000@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>
By author: Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Sébastien HINDERER wrote:
>
> > Could someone tell me where I can find a document listing all the
> > escape-sequences that could be sent to the console (/dev/console) and what
> > they do.
>
> Please don't use those sequences directly, as not everyone has
> /dev/console on a vt. You can find the information you want in your local
> terminfo database under "linux".
>
Well, don't use them directly without checking that $TERM is "linux".
Also, normally they should be sent to the current terminal (/dev/tty,
or just stdout) rather than /dev/console.
-hpa
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[not found] <"3a9e8dcd3b72e6a5@amyris.wanadoo.fr>
2001-03-01 18:21 ` Escape sequences & console Simon Richter
2001-03-01 19:48 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-03-01 19:03 Sébastien HINDERER
2001-03-01 20:01 ` Guest section DW
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2001-03-01 20:48 Sébastien HINDERER
2001-03-01 20:10 ` Guest section DW
[not found] <"3a9ea6fa3b646cc9@citronier.wanadoo.fr>
2001-03-02 21:29 ` Simon Richter
2001-03-05 17:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
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