Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!anasaz!rick
From: rick@anasaz.UUCP (Rick Coupland)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Console Driver questions
Message-ID: <942@anasaz.UUCP>
Date: 25 Nov 89 15:46:04 GMT
References: <1989Nov22.003520.14232@daver.UU.NET>
Reply-To: rick@anasaz.UUCP (Rick Coupland)
Organization: Anasazi Inc, Phoenix AZ
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In article <1989Nov22.003520.14232@daver.UU.NET> dlr@daver.UU.NET (Dave Rand) writes:
>I have been having some problems getting the Pcomm program running under
>Interactive Unix. It seems that the at386 console driver doesn't work
>quite right. To check this, I connected a VT100 directly to the system,
>logged in, and ran pcomm - this worked correctly.
>
>The symptom of this problem is that the boxes surrounding some of
>the messages displayed during the use of pcomm are corrupt. Usually
>the vertical bars displayed on the rightmost side of the box show
>up several characters to the right of their correct position.
>

I am also running Interactive on a 386 and use the pcomm program.
I ran into the same problem and also noticed that it had to do with tab
characters not being handled correctly.  My solution was to do a
"stty -tabs" befor running pcomm.  I now have this in my .login file
and never see the problem anymore.



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