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From: tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: vt100 termcap/emulation
Keywords: vt100, termcap, macintosh
Message-ID: <55897@cci632.UUCP>
Date: 1 Apr 91 14:59:20 GMT
References: <475@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
Reply-To: tvf@cci632.UUCP (Tom Frauenhofer)
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In article <475@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> pdp@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Paul Douglas Page) writes:
>I have a couple of questions about using minix over a serial line:
>	Following is a termcap hacked up for use with a vt100 emulator. Can
>anyone tell me if it is correct or can be improved?

Looked good to me, but...

>	I am using a macintosh running White Knight in vt100 mode. Most 
>things work as expected except the editors (mined/vi ect) don't behave
>correctly. I lose lines, can't scoll backwards to the top line etc.

The Minix termcap routines (specifically tputs() do not support
null-padded terminals, such as the vt100.  I have a termcap library
that does, I am going to try porting it to Minix as soon as I
resurrect my system from toast (it took a power hit, the motherboard
and hard disks went to protect the power supply and the fuse in
the surge protector... :-( ).
-- 
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