Followup to:
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By author: Simon Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Sébastien HINDERER wrote:
>
> > Could someone tell me where I can find a document listing all the
> > escape-sequences that could be sent to the console (/dev/console) and what
> > they do.
>
> Please don't use those sequences directly, as not everyone has
> /dev/console on a vt. You can find the information you want in your local
> terminfo database under "linux".
>
Well, don't use them directly without checking that $TERM is "linux".
Also, normally they should be sent to the current terminal (/dev/tty,
or just stdout) rather than /dev/console.
-hpa
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