Reference Guides for Terminal Control Sequences

This page contains a collection of reference documents about control sequences for various terminals under Linux, and Unix and X-Windows in general.

Beware that these documents are very old (in Internet time, at least...) based on a research I made at the end of 1997 on kernel 1.3.x. I am not sure that the information provided are still valid. If they are still useful, please let me know.

• Linux Console Control Sequences
• linux-console.html - Source File (HTML)
• linux-console.txt - Plain Text
  (generated with lynx -dump linux-console.html >linux-console.txt)
• Xterm Control Sequences
• xterm-seqs.ms - Source File (troff -ms)
• xterm-seqs.zip - ZIP File with PostScript
  (generated with groff -ms xterm-seqs.ms >xterm-seqs.ps
  && zip -m xterm-seqs xterm-seqs.ps.gz)

Please feel free to submit any modifications and suggestions to me.

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