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Features of a computer terminal beyond displaying text

In computing and telecommunications, the capabilities of a terminal are various terminal features, above and beyond what is available from a pure teletypewriter, that host systems can make use of. They are (mainly) control codes and escape codes that can be sent to or received from the terminal. The escape codes sent to the terminal perform various functions that a CRT terminal is capable of, but that a teletypewriter is not; such as moving the terminal's cursor to positions on the screen, clearing and scrolling all or parts of the screen, turning on and off attached printer devices, programming programmable function keys, changing display colours and attributes, and setting display title strings. The escape codes received from the terminal signify things such as function key, arrow key, and other special key keystrokes. Wikipedia →

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