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| From | Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: terminal designed for C |
| Date | 2012-10-25 17:29 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <k6cb0d$s0a$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 10/25/2012 5:11 PM, kerravon wrote:
> On Friday, October 26, 2012 12:04:49 AM UTC+11, Eric Sosman wrote:
>> On 10/25/2012 12:09 AM, kerravon wrote:
>>
>>> when I saw them write "there is no
>>> escape in EBCDIC",
>>
>> Where did X3J11, or any other C-involved Committee, write
>> any such thing?
>
> The C89 Committee considered proposals to add the character constant '\e' to represent the
> ASCII ESC ('\033') character. This proposal was based upon the use of ESC as the initial
> character of most control sequences in common terminal driving disciplines such as ANSI
> X3.64. However, this usage has no obvious counterpart in other popular character codes such as
> EBCDIC.
>
> That's where they wrote it - in the ANSI rationale.
Yes, I know about the Rationale: I quoted this exact same
passage in a reply to you a couple days ago. But where does
this say "there is no escape in EBCDIC?"
--
Eric Sosman
esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid
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Re: terminal designed for C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-10-22 23:34 -0500
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Re: terminal designed for C Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-10-24 14:15 -0400
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Re: terminal designed for C Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-10-24 20:15 -0400
Re: terminal designed for C Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2012-10-24 21:13 -0400
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Re: terminal designed for C kerravon <kerravon@w3.to> - 2012-10-25 14:11 -0700
Re: terminal designed for C Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-10-25 17:29 -0400
Re: terminal designed for C kerravon <kerravon@w3.to> - 2012-10-26 03:33 -0700
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Re: terminal designed for C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-12-17 13:20 -0800
Re: terminal designed for C Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-12-20 10:19 -0800
Re: terminal designed for C Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-10-27 02:35 +0100
Re: terminal designed for C kerravon <kerravon@w3.to> - 2012-10-26 18:58 -0700
Re: terminal designed for C Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-10-27 05:01 +0100
Re: terminal designed for C Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-10-27 00:56 -0500
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Re: terminal designed for C Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-10-26 11:13 -0700
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