From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 2 00:50:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD11737B401 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 00:50:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out004.verizon.net (out004pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F84E44014 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 00:50:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([141.149.47.46]) by out004.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030702075039.USTP246.out004.verizon.net@mac.com>; Wed, 2 Jul 2003 02:50:39 -0500 Message-ID: <3F028ECB.4030208@mac.com> Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 03:50:35 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: abc@ai1.anchorage.mtaonline.net References: <200307020243.h622hIuP079791@en26.ai1.anchorage.mtaonline.net> In-Reply-To: <200307020243.h622hIuP079791@en26.ai1.anchorage.mtaonline.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out004.verizon.net from [141.149.47.46] at Wed, 2 Jul 2003 02:50:38 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: vt/ansi codes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 07:50:41 -0000 abc@ai1.anchorage.mtaonline.net wrote: [ ... ] > the basis for this question was to determine if it was > feasible to write a portable FBSD application and/or library > without external dependencies. You can write portable ANSI-C code using the STDIO routines, without external dependencies upon termcap, ncurses, or anything else but libc. > it is understood what "ncurses" and "SLang" are for - and initially ANSI > escape sequences seemed to provide a way to break through the burdens and > complications of ncurses and termcap entries. Which are? Precisely what are you trying to do? Do you need color? Are you using plain text-mode stuff, or do you need bitmapped graphics? If text-mode, do you need cursor positioning? Do you care whether your code runs on anything but an Intel box? -- -Chuck