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From: suhre@trwrba.UUCP (Maurice E. Suhre)
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Subject: Termcap Excerpt
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 17:23:04 EST
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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.