Termcap question

[Peter da Silva]

In article <12264 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> I'm curious as to the kind of terminal you have that requires a 0 byte
> for some non-padding function.  I've never encountered this myself..

The Televideo line of terminals (notable for the magic cookie glitch) use
a 3-byte sequence for programming the cursor keys. Null bytes in this
sequence are not transmitted, and so can be used to terminate it much
as they do in C. A pity the usages conflict.
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