Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!xenitec!sco!olsa99!rascal!theo
From: theo@rascal.UUCP (T. Kramer)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals,sco.opendesktop
Subject: Re: Alternate character modes on qvt101 and freedom 100 terminals
Keywords: qvt101, freedom100, curses
Message-ID: <1502@rascal.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 91 10:12:50 GMT
References: <1500@rascal.UUCP> <10156@scolex.sco.COM>
Reply-To: theo@rascal.UUCP (T. Kramer)
Followup-To: comp.terminals
Organization: Rascal Systems
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In article <10156@scolex.sco.COM> staceyc@sco.COM (Stacey Campbell) writes:
>
>Just to double check, you are aware that '%' is special in terminfo
>and needs to be escaped (I notice that you have shown the special code
>for ascii 27 '\E' but not for '%' which is '%%'.  Do a man terminfo
>for information.

I have checked the manual and you are quit correct in stating that
the '%' (percentage) character is special. However, even if the rmacs
sequence is '\E%%' or for that matter '\E%%%%%..%%' the rmacs sequence
is not output to the screen. The output for my program is as follows:-

^[(^[(+^[= 5^[%%^M^[$fkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkg^[=7
             ^     ^                      ^
             |     |                      |
      rmacs?-+     +-smacs                +-- Where is the rmacs???

This is with rmacs set to '\E%%%%'

> Which uses termcap where '%' is not probably not special.

No! the XENIX V.2.2 linked in curses library is -ltinfo. The XENIX development
system generated binary <does> work perfectly for both XENIX V.2.2 and
SCO UNIX V.3.2 and SCO Opendesktop all using terminfo.

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