Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Rainer Weikusat Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps Subject: Re: Set/get console cursor position without use ncurses Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:31:37 +0000 Lines: 27 Message-ID: <87d2z5eh06.fsf@sapphire.mobileactivedefense.com> References: <1bhaokyvez.fsf@snowball.wb.pfeifferfamily.net> <87zk2a9aaj.fsf@sapphire.mobileactivedefense.com> <87fw41vky7.fsf@sapphire.mobileactivedefense.com> <87k3td39ml.fsf@thumper.dhh.gt.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: individual.net qSNtV+yg2cbDDpHFR79g1QmbcbBhA0+6nA9bugwP7A26o5rNatd0Pp6RJQN4m6IXk= Cancel-Lock: sha1:a3wIv9y4JyhNqYYcIJzUzywUsrE= sha1:oanNB9LTw7ise7VCiYZ8FGcHSDI= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.development.apps:545 John Hasler writes: > Max writes: >> If I annoyed people I'm really sorry for this but, honestly, I don't >> think to be bigot. > > You aren't. Some people have very strong opinions and are also very > thin-skinned. Just ignore them. There was a single postig by Jan Pantelje about the merits or lack thereof of DOS and Windows. And this caused this 'Max' guy to go onto a name calling spree centered around "as everyone knows, all Linux user are ...". And these kind of sweeping statements based on ignorance are 'bigotry' in my book, cf http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/bigotry especially considering that the person who posted them doesn't even understand why his 'as we all know all XXX are YYY'-statements might offend people. So far, I had been following the thread and was thinking about possibly writing something useful (specifically, that serial console are not that uncommon, especially for 'embedded uses', and that terminal emulators usually don't support "Linux console codes) but this "there are three operating systems in the world, DOS, Windows and Linux and the latter is solely used by all the crackpots/ fruitcakes "as everyone knows"' made me reconsider that.