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  1. Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!sifon!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!mouse
  3. From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
  4. Subject: Re: Ansi Xterm
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec23.031500.14604@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
  6. Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
  7. References: <1gqhb5INN4ar@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> <1992Dec18.093236@roper.mc.ti.com> <tsr7qt0@zola.esd.sgi.com>
  8. Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 03:15:00 GMT
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  11. In article <tsr7qt0@zola.esd.sgi.com>, erik@westworld.esd.sgi.com (Erik Fortune) writes:
  12. > In article <1992Dec21.170650.17600@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>, mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu writes:
  13. >> In any case, yes, you're right.  xterm doesn't do color.
  14. > xterm as distributed by MIT doesn't do color.   There is a version
  15. > (whose name escapes me) on export.lcs.mit.edu which does ANSI color.
  16.  
  17. Okay, this is happening often enough to make me wonder.
  18.  
  19. Everybody keeps talking about "ANSI color".  What standard is this part
  20. of?  I got copies of X3.41 and X3.64 from our library system; they
  21. definitely did not include anything of the sort.  Were they simply out
  22. of date?  Is there some other standard I've missed?
  23.  
  24. Or is everyone just saying "ANSI" when they really mean "ISO 6429"?
  25.  
  26. Someone?  Anyone?
  27.  
  28.                     der Mouse
  29.  
  30.                 mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
  31.