From: Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Compatibility question
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2023 14:29:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <acbccaf6-5f9d-474b-9c71-1df45527db17@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABH=_VQzW1v9qGeDLvfYDw9NGUaoWR2hruWh6jG3rNSvBswYzg@mail.gmail.com>
Speaking of how VMS handled escape sequences, in the 1980s I
swung both ways (e.g. VMS and Unix). When DEC announced TERMTABLE,
a termcap-like library for VMS, I thought it would be fun to
write a termcap to TERMTABLE conversion program, so I did.
I thought this would let me run VMS TUI programs on non-DEC
compatible terminals.
This turned out to be a bad idea because none (?) of the DEC-written
programs actually used TERMTABLE. They were all hard-wired to use
VT100 (and VT52?) escape sequences. As I recall, I couldn't find any
programs that used TERMTABLE in non-trivial ways so I gave up.
Jon Forrest
UCB (ret.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-12-18 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-12-17 2:01 [TUHS] " KenUnix
2023-12-17 18:13 ` [TUHS] " Seth Morabito
2023-12-17 18:23 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-12-17 22:51 ` Mary Ann Horton
2023-12-17 22:59 ` Ron Natalie
2023-12-17 23:08 ` Warner Losh
2023-12-18 0:35 ` KenUnix
2023-12-18 3:24 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-12-18 17:05 ` Paul Winalski
2023-12-18 22:29 ` Jon Forrest [this message]
2023-12-19 1:46 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-12-19 7:56 ` Harald Arnesen
2023-12-19 17:40 ` Paul Winalski
2023-12-19 18:07 ` Tom Lyon
2023-12-19 20:23 ` Clem Cole
2023-12-19 21:31 ` Paul Winalski
2023-12-19 23:52 ` Bakul Shah
2023-12-20 0:05 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2023-12-20 1:03 ` Bakul Shah
2023-12-20 1:32 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2023-12-20 6:05 ` Wesley Parish
2023-12-20 0:15 ` Mary Ann Horton
2023-12-20 16:07 ` Adam Thornton
2023-12-20 16:22 ` Clem Cole
2023-12-20 18:11 ` Alan D. Salewski
2023-12-20 16:34 ` Paul Winalski
2023-12-20 18:15 ` Jon Forrest
2023-12-20 1:11 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-12-20 1:23 ` Tom Lyon
2023-12-21 3:53 ` Rod Bartlett via TUHS
2023-12-19 21:34 ` Rob Pike
2023-12-17 5:55 David Arnold
2023-12-17 8:08 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-12-17 18:04 ` James Frew
2023-12-17 18:18 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-12-17 19:14 ` Brad Spencer
2023-12-17 18:48 ` Paul Winalski
2023-12-17 18:59 ` Warner Losh
2023-12-17 20:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-12-17 19:26 ` Dan Cross
2023-12-17 20:08 ` Warner Losh
2023-12-17 14:07 ` Brad Spencer
2023-12-17 14:47 ` Arrigo Triulzi via TUHS
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