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Terminal capabilities

In computing and telecommunications, the capabilities of a terminal are various terminal features, above and beyond what is available from a pure teletypewriter, that host systems (and the programs that run on them) can make use of. They are (mainly) control codes and escape codes that can be sent to or received from the terminal. The escape codes sent…

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Unix and POSIX: termcap, terminfo, et al.

POSIX Controlling environment variables of the POSIX terminal interface Terminfo Termcap Curses

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Terminal Teletypewriter Control codes Escape codes CRT

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Unix and POSIX: termcap, terminfo, et al.

POSIX
Controlling environment variables of the POSIX terminal interface POSIX terminal interface
Terminfo
Termcap
Curses Curses (programming library)
Ncurses
Textual user interfaces Textual user interface
Form feed
ANSI escape sequences ANSI escape sequence
Distributions of Linux Linux distribution
Standard output Standard streams
Environment variable
DEC VT100 VT100

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Terminal capabilities

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Terminal capabilities

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Terminal capabilities → In Unix, POSIX, POSIX-compliant, The, They

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Terminal capabilities → BSD, It, The, This

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terminal terminfo termcap database systems capabilities codes escape unix programs type command posix use function used teletypewriter library fields uses

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Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
function key	instance of	The escape codes received from the terminal signify things	0.80	text
arrow key	instance of	The escape codes received from the terminal signify things	0.80	text
and other special key	instance of	The escape codes received from the terminal signify things	0.80	text
the curses	instance of	upon which in turn are built libraries	0.80	text
ncurses libraries	instance of	upon which in turn are built libraries	0.80	text
by which applications programs use the terminal capabilities to provide textual user interfaces with windows	instance of	upon which in turn are built libraries	0.80	text
dialogue boxes	instance of	upon which in turn are built libraries	0.80	text
buttons	instance of	upon which in turn are built libraries	0.80	text
labels	instance of	upon which in turn are built libraries	0.80	text
input fields	instance of	upon which in turn are built libraries	0.80	text
menus	instance of	upon which in turn are built libraries	0.80	text
and so forth	instance of	upon which in turn are built libraries	0.80	text

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