Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Path: utzoo!sq!lee
From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Subject: Re: Console Driver questions
Message-ID: <1989Nov30.232535.1770@sq.sq.com>
Reply-To: lee@sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Organization: Unixsys (UK) Ltd
References: <1989Nov22.003520.14232@daver.UU.NET> <942@anasaz.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 89 23:25:35 GMT

In article <942@anasaz.UUCP> rick@anasaz.UUCP (Rick Coupland) writes:
>In article <1989Nov22.003520.14232@daver.UU.NET> dlr@daver.UU.NET (Dave Rand) writes:
>>[...]
>>The symptom of this problem is that the boxes surrounding some of
>>the messages displayed during the use of pcomm are corrupt.
>
>I ran into the same problem and also noticed that it had to do with tab
>characters not being handled correctly.

Another thing to notice is that the AT386 terminfo (and termcap) entry has
the xt flag set, when, as far as I can tell, it should not.

Removing this may improve things.  I'm told that it also helps Gnu emacs.

Lee
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