On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Manas Laha wrote:

> What ncurses uses is a aet of standard ANSI codes for terminal control.
> Unfortunately, I don't have a ready answer about where to find them.
> 
> These codes may be used by any program.

  Yes and no. 


  ncurses and similar programs make use of the termcap and other
information to determine which set of terminal control settings to use.  
If you are doing anything advanced, you want to go through something like
ncurses to ensure that your terminal based application will work
regardless of what terminal someone is using.

  If you create something 'vt100 only' or linux-console only, then the 
program will only work in those specialized environments.

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