On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 10:33:02AM -0700, Jon wrote:

> o;?
> I am referring to the old hardware "dumb terminals", which had the vt320
> "standards" etc. A client of mine uses a legacy database application

Ehh, it's a bit rewriting history to call the vt line "dumb
terminals". vt terminals were considered pretty smart, acutully mroe
or less defining the term "smart terminal". That's still refelected in
the termcap database: a dumb terminal has no random cursor movement,
it more or less emulates a teletype. 

        -Otto

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