On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 06:11:51PM -0600, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 21:28 +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > "Nelson A. de Oliveira" <naoliv@biolinux.df.ibilce.unesp.br> writes: > > > WMAnsiEd is an ANSI editor with functions like line drawing, ellipse, > > > box, etc., written in Qt. All IBM ANSI and ASCII characters are > > "ANSI" is pretty meaningless as a "standard", since ANSI standardised > > many different things. Perhaps you mean it implements ISO-6429 > > (ECMA-48) SGR control sequences, or maybe something entirely > > different? Either way, it would help if you were much more specific. > > (This applies equally to the other ITP.) > For most of us who grew up on IBM PC systems in the DOS days, "ANSI" was > a character set / graphics style first, and an organization second. I > don't know what the official standards for the character set and > terminal specifications are, but people who are interested are going to > be looking for "ANSI" or "ANSI graphics", not a standards document > number. A bit of googling produced [1] which points at ANSI's "Advanced Data Communication Control Procedure (ADCCP) X3.64-1979". And yes, that's ISO-6429/EMCA-48. ^_^ So it proably should be described as an "ANSI X3.64-1979/ISO-6429/ECMA-48 (aka ANSI, in the domain of modem-based BBS)" or something, so that an apt-cache search will pick it up for "ANSI BBS" while not fuelling the fires of controversy and ignorance, as it possibly does now. ^_^ (Also, Cricket gives a listing of the various whacky X.364 implementations. ^_^ [3]) [1] http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Fortress/2756/graphics.html [2] http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/dataformats/ansi.html [3] http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/gloss.html -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 8th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) Paul.Hampson@Anu.edu.au "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from I wonder?" -- Capt. Jack Sparrow, "Pirates of the Caribbean" This email is licensed to the recipient for non-commercial use, duplication and distribution. -----------------------------------------------------------
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