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From: fischer@utower.UUCP (Axel Fischer)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: emacs under INTERACTIVE
Message-ID: <342@utower.UUCP>
Date: 19 Nov 89 20:06:32 GMT
References: <13264@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Reply-To: fischer@utower.UUCP (Axel Fischer)
Organization: Me, Myself and I (Berlin, West Germany)
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In article <13264@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> ugkamins@marvin.cs.buffalo.edu (Dr. R. Chandra) writes:
->Also, I notice an "RD" at the very beginning of the status line where
->the version here on marvin just has "--".  Is this normal?  marvin's
->version is 18.53.  I think this must be some sort of misused escape
->sequence, like when I invoke vi with vt100 as my terminal on the
->consoles, when it is supposed to be AT386 (when I exit, I get
->extraneous characters before my shell prompt).

Yes - you are right.
You have to fixup your terminfo-entry for the AT386.
I've had the same problem - but I have taken a terminfo entry for
ANSI from a friend, modified it and now all runs well.
At my side this has happend also on the system console (RD in status line ..)

Hope this helps,
	Axel


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