I think the first thing to realize that is is rather much outside the 
scope of NetBSD.
Second, the ANSI standard isn't the only way of doing things. The 
termcap is a fairly good source of information, even if it isn't complete.
But the termcap file is huge! But I would say that is a good place to 
start if you want information, unless you want to read standards that 
might or might not be relevant for you.
Terminals exist outside of NetBSD. It's like if we would start 
documenting how RS-232 works in NetBSD, just because we happen to have 
serial ports.

Atleast that is my view on it all. And I might be totally on my own in 
this. :-)

	Johnny

George Georgalis skrev:
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 06:22:26PM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> You could perhaps say, however, that Posix is a part of the ANSI 
>> standards. But as I said to begin with, ANSI defines standards for many 
>> things.
> 
> well, in that case... is there a place in netbsd OS doc for things
> like terminal escape sequence, or other ansi standards?
> 
> or something like standard(5) which could be used as an index or
> bibliography for local man pages and external links. that way there
> would at least be a jump table for information in the local doc,
> when spec of unknown origin is needed? (I did spend/waste quite a
> while with apropos &c searching for color escape sequences.)
> 
> // George
> 
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