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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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  reply	other threads:[~2001-03-01 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [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
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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