discuss: Thread: A Question regarding terminals

Hi David,
	I was reading your Text-Terminal-HOWTO. I have few questions. 

1.In most of the manuals and articles people say use echo ^[[5;32;42m and
get some color etc.. In your HOWTO you mentioned that different terminals
take different esc codes. So how is it generic?. Is it because most of the
terminals take the same code or because we always use vt100 emulation on a
monitor with PC. I want to know whether most of the codes are same for
terminals or not. What I mean is Do any two different terminals manufactured
by different people have same esc codes? If yes? is there any standard?
2.How are these escape codes designed? what does the 'm' at the end of code
signify? Is it an abbreviation for some thing?
3.when a mouse is used in a terminal does any escape sequences are generated
or not? If not, how does the mouse work in xterm? 
4.What does a terminal driver do exactly? Are the esc sequences generated by
terminal driver? 

I know bits and pieces of things about these. Can u explain and make some
things clear? 
Any one else who knows about these things, please point me in right
direction..

Thank You,
Pradeep. 


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Pradeep Padala					
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Hughes Software Systems
Phone: 	301-767-3027
Home Page : http://pradeeppadala.homestead.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Lawyer ####@####.####
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 9:22 PM
> To: Padala, Pradeep
> Cc: ####@####.####
> Subject: Re: A premilinary draft for NCURSES HOWTO
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 01:28:05PM -0500, Padala, Pradeep wrote:
> >  I am preparing a full draft with some thing in each section.
> It's "something".  Also "preliminary" in the title.
> 
> I once received a complaint that my Text-Terminal-HOWTO didn't explain
> how to program with ncurses.  So I think that a HOWTO on that topic is
> a good idea.  In Text-Terminal I tried to explain what ncurses does
> but give no details on programming with it.  You might want to take a
> look at: 
>   o  ncurses FAQ <http://dickey.his.com/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html>
> 
> 
> 			David Lawyer
> 

On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 12:49:34PM -0500, Padala, Pradeep wrote:
> Hi David,
> 	I was reading your Text-Terminal-HOWTO. I have few questions. 
[snip]
I'm sending a direct reply to Padala with no Cc to the lists.
Technical questions like this belong either on a newsgroup (such as
comp.terminals) or should be discussed privately.  Otherwise it's just
noise for most people on the list.

			David Lawyer

I am sorry for posting that to the lists. I thought some one might help me
because it is related to my NCURSES HOWTO. Sorry for that. 

pradeep


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Lawyer ####@####.####
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 4:23 PM
> To: Padala, Pradeep
> Cc: LDP Discuss (E-mail); LDP Review List (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: A Question regarding terminals
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 12:49:34PM -0500, Padala, Pradeep wrote:
> > Hi David,
> > 	I was reading your Text-Terminal-HOWTO. I have few questions. 
> [snip]
> I'm sending a direct reply to Padala with no Cc to the lists.
> Technical questions like this belong either on a newsgroup (such as
> comp.terminals) or should be discussed privately.  Otherwise it's just
> noise for most people on the list.
> 
> 			David Lawyer
>