From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 14:54:32 -0400
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Subject: Re: old archived termios submission
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> Is it just to save a few bytes of the leading "\e["
> sequence?

Could be. The table also encodes whether alt, ctrl, or shift was pressed. 

> Also, I couldn't find a single terminal among the more popular ones
> where F1 produces "\e[XA".  On vt100 it produces "\e[11~", for
> example, and the same is true for xterm.

It appears to me he invented his own encoding. Perhaps we should take look at 
ansi or vt10x encodings instead.

Mark