On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 05:18:45AM +0000, tony.little at comcast.net wrote: > I was investigating how my copy of knoppix works, and as I was reading the file 'knoppix-autoconfig' I > found these variables with some weird strings being assigned to them: > > # ANSI COLORS > CRE="^M^[[K" > NORMAL="^[[0;39m" <snip> > I can tell that these are modifiers for the color of the text but I whould like to know > which part does what and where can I find a definition of these? Google on ansi terminal escape sequences http://www.termsys.demon.co.uk/vtansi.htm These come from the original smart terminals(DEC VT52, VT100,..). The kernel implements a terminal emulation which is what Knoppix interacts with initially. Karl.