> normally, the entire escape sequence goes out in a single packet > so lag between packets shouldn't affect them at all.
I just tried a tcpdump. For up-arrow the sequence ESC [ A is transmitted. The first packet contains ESC only, 1 byte; the second package contains [ A, 2 bytes. This is using rsh and an xterm. So, yes, net delay can separate the ESC from the following bytes. > I'd assume there's something wrong with your environment Possibly, but this is a fairly standard X, xterm, rsh environment. Linux on the sending side. I have not looked at the source, but with some fantasy one might conjecture that a single write goes out in a single packet, and that xterm uses two writes. Andries -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
