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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!sun-barr!sh.wide!wnoc-tyo-news!scslwide!wsgw!wsservra!onoe
  2. From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
  3. Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
  4. Subject: Re: Ansi Xterm
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec23.055830.5488@sm.sony.co.jp>
  6. Date: 23 Dec 92 05:58:30 GMT
  7. Sender: onoe@sm.sony.co.jp (Atsushi Onoe)
  8. Distribution: fj
  9. Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
  10. Lines: 26
  11. Approved: michael@sm.sony.co.jp
  12.  
  13. Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 03:15:00 GMT
  14. Message-Id: <1992Dec23.031500.14604@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
  15. Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
  16. References: <1gqhb5INN4ar@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>, <1992Dec18.093236@roper.mc.ti.com>, <tsr7qt0@zola.esd.sgi.com>
  17. Sender: xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu
  18.  
  19. In article <tsr7qt0@zola.esd.sgi.com>, erik@westworld.esd.sgi.com (Erik Fortune) writes:
  20. > In article <1992Dec21.170650.17600@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>, mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu writes:
  21. >> In any case, yes, you're right.  xterm doesn't do color.
  22. > xterm as distributed by MIT doesn't do color.   There is a version
  23. > (whose name escapes me) on export.lcs.mit.edu which does ANSI color.
  24.  
  25. Okay, this is happening often enough to make me wonder.
  26.  
  27. Everybody keeps talking about "ANSI color".  What standard is this part
  28. of?  I got copies of X3.41 and X3.64 from our library system; they
  29. definitely did not include anything of the sort.  Were they simply out
  30. of date?  Is there some other standard I've missed?
  31.  
  32. Or is everyone just saying "ANSI" when they really mean "ISO 6429"?
  33.  
  34. Someone?  Anyone?
  35.  
  36.                     der Mouse
  37.  
  38.                 mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
  39.