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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: VMS & SGI and terminfo
Summary: problem with iris-ansi termcap/terminfo
Message-ID: <1991May1.175914.10781@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 1 May 91 17:59:14 GMT
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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I was reminded of a problem I sometimes have when I read:
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>>How about using the console keyboard in a session telneted to the VMS vax...

I'm using the console via cu at 9600 baud to an old Unix system we have,
and I used infocmp to generate termcap and terminfo files for it.  But
frequently when running vi, especially when the cursor is jumping around
(for example, at the beginning of a line I type "A"), large blocks of
text get erased.  Not really erased, I get them back with ^L, but they
vanish from the screen.  Any hints on how to avoid this?
-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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