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