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On 2006-04-12, Chris F.A. Johnson <cfajohnson at gmail.com> wrote:
>    These days, the ISO-6429 standard (almost the same as the older
>    ANSI x3.64) is so close to universal that I don't bother writing
>    for anything else any more.

Oh, wonderful. ``All the world's a vax^W^WISO-6429 compatible'' all over
again.


>    If the need arises, I'll do it, but it will be simple to do, and
>    much faster (both in coding and script execution) than trying to
>    accommodate all terminals from the start.

Yes, why use a perfectly good abstraction when you can hardcode stuff.


>    I still have a system which does not have tput.

And that justifies everything else. Of course.


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