- SVr3 and early SVr4 curses implementations did not reject
- function keys; the SVr4.0 documentation claimed that "spe-
- cial keys" (such as function keys, "home" key, "clear"
- key, <EM>etc</EM>.) are "interpreted", without giving details. It
- lied. In fact, the "character" value appended to the
- string by those implementations was predictable but not
- useful (being, in fact, the low-order eight bits of the
- key's KEY_ value).
+ SVr3 and early SVr4 curses implementations did not reject function
+ keys; the SVr4.0 documentation claimed that "special keys" (such as
+ function keys, "home" key, "clear" key, <EM>etc</EM>.) are "interpreted", with-
+ out giving details. It lied. In fact, the "character" value appended
+ to the string by those implementations was predictable but not useful
+ (being, in fact, the low-order eight bits of the key's KEY_ value).