From 145a665014b2aa230b81b582689c8ec17ef9968e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthieu Herrb Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:11:55 +0000 Subject: Importing xterm 216 --- app/xterm/README | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) create mode 100644 app/xterm/README (limited to 'app/xterm/README') diff --git a/app/xterm/README b/app/xterm/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..f098b04b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/app/xterm/README @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ + Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here + + +This is undoubtedly the most ugly program in the distribution. It was one of +the first "serious" programs ported, and still has a lot of historical baggage. +Ideally, there would be a general tty widget and then vt102 and tek4014 +subwidgets so that they could be used in other programs. We are trying to +clean things up as we go, but there is still a lot of work to do. + +If you are porting this to a machine that has problems with overlapping +bcopy's, watch out! + +There are two documents on xterm: the man page, xterm.man, which describes +how to use it, and ctlseqs.ms, which describes the control sequences it +understands. -- cgit v1.2.3