Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site trwrba.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!suhre From: suhre@trwrba.UUCP (Maurice E. Suhre) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Termcap Excerpt Message-ID: <1653@trwrba.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 17:23:04 EST Article-I.D.: trwrba.1653 Posted: Fri Nov 1 17:23:04 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 05:42:59 EST Organization: TRW EDS, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 12 Excerpted from the Terminal Capabilities reference manual: Typical screen editing functions are insert-line, delete-line, insert-character, and delete-character. Terminals performing these functions are usually called *intelligent*, even if their behavior is otherwise moronic. Terminals without these features cannot be officially called *dumb* because Lear Seigler took the strange tactic of trademarking that term, and reserves the exclusive right to call their terminals *dumb*. BTW, this manual was very interesting to me.