Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!xenitec!vances
From: vances@xenitec.on.ca (Vance Shipley)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: terminfo description needs pause
Message-ID: <1990Dec17.171335.4861@xenitec.on.ca>
Date: 17 Dec 90 17:13:35 GMT
Organization: Xenitec Consulting Services, Kitchener, ON, CANADA
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Here's one for you terminfo gurus.  I have an AT&T 5620 terminal and
I am using SCO ODT.  The problem is that when I log in the terminal
reset escape code is sent and this seems to take two or three seconds
to proccess in the terminal, by that time the string that declares the
terminal type and sometimes the first "1%" are missed.  I need to 
introduce a delay after the rs1 sequence.  I tried adding a pad to the
rs1 string but that didn't work because the npc boolean is present (no
pad character).  Removing npc and supplying a pad in rs1 results in 
garbage being displayed (the pad chars).

	How can I delay further action after the rs1 sequence?

	Why does terminfo use padding characters anyway, why not just wait?

Vance Shipley
vances@xenitec.on.ca.UUCP