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[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:57:33AM -0700, Bob Rasmussen wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 08:52:59AM -0700, Bob Rasmussen wrote:
> > >        ESC [ ? 25 h
> > >               DECCM (default on): Make cursor visible.
> > > 
> > > Replace the "h" with "l" (ell) for invisible.
> > 
> > Those stand for "high" and "low", and harken back to the VT100 days, in
> > case anyone is curious (most of the ANSI terminal command set was
> > stolen from the vt100).
> 
> I never knew that! (about high and low)

I believe it's actually in the original DEC hardware manual for the
VT100, one of which I have somewhere.

Cheers,
-- jra
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