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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!math.fu-berlin.de!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Subject: Re: 386bsd: 16550, color, vt100 References: <1992Aug19.195743.13499@engage.pko.dec.com> <sand.714341461@milton> <1992Aug20.222741.9968@ugle.unit.no> Date: 21 Aug 92 10:00:13 GMT Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Sender: @unidui.uni-duisburg.de Message-ID: <veit.714391213@du9ds3> Lines: 32 In <1992Aug20.222741.9968@ugle.unit.no> arnej@Lise.Unit.NO (Arne Henrik Juul) writes: [...] >The sequence: ESC [ 3 ; <number> x >means: set the PC color mode to <number>, where <number> will be used >in this way: >| 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | >| blink | background |bright | foreground | >| (fg) | color | (fg) | color | >The standout mode works another way: Here, the foreground is given >first (as a number from 0-15) followed by background as another number >from 0-15. The same color combination would be: Warning: this is incompatible with vt100. A vt100 emits an identification string with ESC [ x, which may cause much problems. In a recent posting of a vt100 console replacement (by Helmut Michaelis in alt.sources), we had a problem that "color escape sequences" like the above could crash the kernel (because of a special bug). In my next release of KEYCAP, a pccons replacement for national keyboards, this suspicious ESC x will be gone. You'll read in the documentation about this then. >-- >Arne H. Juul -- arnej@lise.unit.no -- University of Trondheim, Norway Holger -- | | / Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | BITNET: veit%du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de@UNIDO | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | "No, my programs are not BUGGY, these are | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | just unexpected FEATURES"