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| 1 | -- $XTermId: README,v 1.3 2007/05/24 19:49:19 tom Exp $ |
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| 2 | -- Below is the original README for xterm from 1991, for your amusement. |
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| 3 | -- For a better overview, see http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ |
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| 4 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 5 | Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here |
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| 8 | This is undoubtedly the most ugly program in the distribution. It was one of |
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| 9 | the first "serious" programs ported, and still has a lot of historical baggage. |
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| 10 | Ideally, there would be a general tty widget and then vt102 and tek4014 |
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| 11 | subwidgets so that they could be used in other programs. We are trying to |
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| 12 | clean things up as we go, but there is still a lot of work to do. |
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| 14 | If you are porting this to a machine that has problems with overlapping |
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| 15 | bcopy's, watch out! |
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| 17 | There are two documents on xterm: the man page, xterm.man, which describes |
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| 18 | how to use it, and ctlseqs.ms, which describes the control sequences it |
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| 19 | understands. |
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