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diff --git a/kbd/README.reset b/kbd/README.reset new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8060d265d --- /dev/null +++ b/kbd/README.reset @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +RedHat and SuSE take the program reset from ncurses, + where reset is a name for the program tset. + It is approximately equivalent to + stty sane; tputs rs1; tputs rs2; tputs rf + with `tputs rf' replaced by `tputs if' when there is an + init_file but no reset_file. In the comments it wonders + whether also sending rs3, rmacs, rmul, rmm might be a good idea. + +Slackware uses the small script given here. + The part `echo -e \\033c' is the canonical reset of the kernel + console status, and is equivalent to `tputs rs1' for a linux + terminal. + +So, both versions are approximately the same. + + +[A disadvantage of `echo -e \\033c' might be that it is potentially +wrong on a non-vt100, non-xterm, non-linux terminal. +An advantage is that there are terminfo entries for xterm around +that only use rs1=^O as reset, and then \Ec is much better.] |