On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 10:20:21PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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.
not even net delay is required. -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
