From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751933AbYJNRu1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:50:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750829AbYJNRuN (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:50:13 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:41324 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750812AbYJNRuM (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:50:12 -0400 Message-ID: <48F4DBA3.4060907@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:49:23 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: Linus Torvalds , Jan Engelhardt , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , "Antonino A. Daplas" Subject: Re: [REVERT Request] VT Breakage References: <20081014115632.600a7506@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20081014183002.059237e7@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20081014183002.059237e7@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: >> So please check this patch. Also, can somebody please verify what the >> _correct_ vt100 behavior is? The test-case was in the original commit, but > > Ahah a trick question - VT100 is monochrome. Colour VT as far as I can > tell (and while I have a genuine VT220 I don't have a non-clone colour > terminal[1]) behaves as we did *before* this changeset. > > Alan > [1] And nobody send me one or Telsa will kill me VT220 was monochrome, too. You needed to go to the VT241 before you got color in the DEC terminal range (and even it didn't support color text via the SGR sequence (CSI m), according to the manual -- even the VT510 manual doesn't document colored text via SGR.) MS-DOS ANSI.SYS definitely only had one attribute at any time; new lines was filled in with the current attribute. -hpa