104b94745Smrg-- $XTermId: README,v 1.3 2007/05/24 19:49:19 tom Exp $ 2d522f475Smrg-- Below is the original README for xterm from 1991, for your amusement. 3d522f475Smrg-- For a better overview, see http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ 4d522f475Smrg------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5d522f475Smrg Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here 6d522f475Smrg 7d522f475Smrg 8d522f475SmrgThis is undoubtedly the most ugly program in the distribution. It was one of 9d522f475Smrgthe first "serious" programs ported, and still has a lot of historical baggage. 10d522f475SmrgIdeally, there would be a general tty widget and then vt102 and tek4014 11d522f475Smrgsubwidgets so that they could be used in other programs. We are trying to 12d522f475Smrgclean things up as we go, but there is still a lot of work to do. 13d522f475Smrg 14d522f475SmrgIf you are porting this to a machine that has problems with overlapping 15d522f475Smrgbcopy's, watch out! 16d522f475Smrg 17d522f475SmrgThere are two documents on xterm: the man page, xterm.man, which describes 18d522f475Smrghow to use it, and ctlseqs.ms, which describes the control sequences it 19d522f475Smrgunderstands. 20