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From: jim@saylor.mn.org (Jim Anderson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: rn in Sun cmdtool
Keywords: Sun trn cmdtool
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.222645.13593@saylor.mn.org>
Date: 14 Jun 91 22:26:45 GMT
References: <379@fnnews.fnal.gov>
Organization: Saylors Software First, Eden Prairie, MN
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In article <379@fnnews.fnal.gov> hanson@fnnews.fnal.gov (Steve Hanson) writes:
>This has undoubtedly been asked before, but ---
>
>I have recently brought up a news server and some reader software and
>I see one quirk I don't understand.  Trn does not seem to want to
>do screen handling properly in a Sun cmdtool.  Works fine in shelltool
>or in a vt100 emulator, but in cmdtool it seems mightily confused about
>cursor position, etc, particularly when marking threads.  Anyone have
>a solution for that?.  I have installed patch 1 and 2.

Two things:  One, cmdtool with scrolling enabled doesn't do cursor
positioning.  The workaround is to disable scrolling before running
trn.

Two, before starting trn, issue a \E3 or \E4 (an Escape 3 or 4).  I
forget which one it is, but it should kick it into a panel, which is what
you get with vi, or other packages which use curses instead of termlib.

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