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From: mdapoz@hybrid.UUCP (Mark Dapoz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Wyse 50+ as a 3b1 terminal
Message-ID: <1989Dec1.141209.186@hybrid.UUCP>
Date: 1 Dec 89 14:12:09 GMT
References: <3311@convex.UUCP> <24425@cup.portal.com> <581@limbic.UUCP> <1989Nov28.002800.12838@hybrid.UUCP> <363@quad.uucp>
Reply-To: mdapoz@hybrid.UUCP (Mark Dapoz)
Organization: The Home for Unemployed Basselopes, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <363@quad.uucp> dts@quad.uucp (David T. Sandberg) writes:
>				Has anyone else encountered problems
>with curses-using software not handling the magic cookie glitch
>properly (that is, not accounting for space-taking attribute bytes
>when using reverse video, etc)?  Basically every highlighted block
>gets shifted over one to the right.  Blech.

I just stay away from those attributes.  If you stick with just low intensity
for all highlighting, everything works fine.  This isn't exactly a solution,
but it does get rid of the problem.
-- 
  Mark Dapoz  (mdapoz@hybrid.UUCP)  ...uunet!mnetor!hybrid!mdapoz

I remind you that humans are only a tiny minority in this galaxy.
	   -- Spock, "The Apple," stardate 3715.6.


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