On Wednesday 12 Oct 2011, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> ANSI fed into DEC's VT terminals that xterm(1) copied and all the other
> terminal emulators since then, e.g. gnome-terminal, so xterm or similar
> should handle the ANSI escape sequences he needs. (I've found
> gnome-terminal lacking in a few but they've fixed bugs eventually.)
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansi_terminal
I'm sure he would have tried that. I may have been guitly of oversimplfying
the question; I think he might be trying to talk to another device over a
serial link, just as you would have done with a VT 100. Can you use gnome-
terminal or xterm to do that?
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