Amh3bs.130 net.games utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!mh3bs!mjm Fri Jan 29 16:15:50 1982 response to pacman termcap interpretation You are probably not using tputs() from termlib to output the cursor motion string. For a VT100 this string is preceded by a number "5" to indicated a timing delay needed. For terminals which don't need a delay, the cursor motion string can be output with just printf(), but it is alway safest to use tputs().