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For questions regarding the use of Escape Code sequences to control video terminals.

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I'm wondering how was the letter c chosen for the character to use to stop printing in the shell echo command. I think it may be because it means cancel, but compared to the usual C/C++ escape ...
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I'm currently trying to experiment with ANSI escape sequences on various terminals/terminal emulators, so I'd like to know if there's an expedient way of typing these sequences on a DOS command prompt,...
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As ASCII is a 7-bit code set, and ISO 646 cannot satisfy needs of many languages, variable-length ISO 2022/EUC was developed, which introduced C1 control codes. However, C1 have hardly left any ...
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While debugging uart on some microcontroller board, I've made a simple firmware that simply responds on every byte received dumping that byte in HEX like "0x**". Then, using different terminal ...
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Terminal escape codes can be used for various functions such as positioning the cursor or querying the size of the screen. What was the largest resolution (in columns and rows of characters) ...
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TL;DR: In video terminals, like the VT100, can control characters and escape sequences only be sent by an application from the host computer to the terminal? Or can they also be sent directly by the ...
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I'm trying to run an old MS-DOS program that was written to use VT52 escape codes. Some Microsoft knowledge base items (such as Q101875) refer to a 'third-party console driver' called VT52.SYS. I'm ...
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