Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!brunix!rca From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Stuart/termcap interactions Message-ID: <69159@brunix.UUCP> Date: 20 Mar 91 01:32:52 GMT References: Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) Distribution: comp Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science Lines: 22 In article scott@texnext.gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes: >Solution: >Change the entry back. The sequence '\E[r' is exactly equivalent >to '\E[1;24' for all 24-line vt100s. I'm not at all sure why the >change was made in the first place - apparently with intent to make >terminal emulators out there "appear" to break. >[...] >Another possibility is that I'll plan to support more of the xterm >entry. In that case, the terminal type can be changed to xterm, >which is correct ('is=\E[r...' starts that sequence). This would >solve the problem entirely, without unsightly hacks. In the mean time, why don't we copy the vt100 entry, change the copy's name to stuart, and set term=stuart ? This should also be a clean approach to the problem... Ronald ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." G.B. Shaw | rca@cs.brown.edu or antony@browncog.bitnet