[ale] Rolling your own terminal emulator

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Wed Oct 20 12:41:53 EDT 2004


John Wells wrote:
> Christopher Fowler said:
> 
>> RFC's on emulation. You'll also need an understanding of the UNIX
>> tty system.
> 
> 
> Yes.  I guess what I'm looking for is a good starting point.  From my
>  review this morning, it appears that both "Advanced Programming in a
> Unix Environment" (W. Richard Stevens) and "Linux Application
> Development" (Michael K. Johnson) offer a fairly good overview of
> ttys/ptys and termios.

Advance UNIX Programming, 2nd edition, Rochkind.  70 pages on Terminal 
i/o although I've not looked at this section.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
                             AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995



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