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.. -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
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.. include:: HEADER.rst
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.. contents::
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Spec.
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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C0_and_C1_control_codes
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                C0 and C1 control codes
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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMA-48
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                ANSI escape sequences
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Check terminal capabilities.
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  $ infocmp -1 xterm
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        ...
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    colors#8,
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    bold=\E[1m,
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    blink=\E[5m,
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        ...
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  $ infocmp -1L xterm    # print long name
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  $ tput -Txterm colors
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  $ tput -Txterm blink
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  ^[[5m
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Print highlighted word::
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  $ h=`tput smso`
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  $ n=`tput rmso`
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  $ echo ${h}xxx${n}
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  xxx
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Old hardware terminal.
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VT102.
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VT100 is a video terminal that was made by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). It was introduced in
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August 1978. Its detailed attributes became the de facto standard for terminal emulators.
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The control sequences used by the VT100 family are based on the ANSI X3.64 standard, later ECMA-48
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and ISO/IEC 6429.
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The VT101 and VT102 were cost-reduced non-expandable follow-on products, with the VT102 including
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the AVO and serial printer port options of the VT100.
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In 1983, the VT100 was replaced by the more-powerful VT200 series terminals such as the VT220.
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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT102
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VT220.
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  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT220
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X window pseudo terminal.
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luit.
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Luit is a filter that can be run between an arbitrary application and a UTF-8
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terminal emulator. It will convert application output from the locale's
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encoding into UTF-8, and convert terminal input from UTF-8 into the locale's
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encoding.
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Example::
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  $ luit -encoding 'ISO 8859-1' emacs -nw
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Use *script* utility::
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  $ script out.file
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  sh# ....
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  ^d
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  $ cat out.file
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For Cygwin::
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  $ setup.exe -p ncurses
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