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From: naiman@pegasus.UUCP (Ephrayim J. Naiman)
Newsgroups: net.info-terms
Subject: Re: autowrapping terminals
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Date: Tue, 23-Oct-84 09:21:10 EDT
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> Finally, if :am: is set but :xn: is *not* set, you should
> assume that you cannot safely write line 24, column 80.  (Although, on a
> terminal with reverse scrolling, you can actually get a character into that
> position by writing the line on line 23, reverse-scrolling it into line 24,
> and then painting or correcting the rest of the screen as appropriate.  Yuck.)

Another way, would be to put the character to be written into the 80th
column of the 24th line into the 79th column and using insert_char_mode, if the
terminal has it, to move it into the 80th column.  I think will be
implemented in some later version of curses.
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==> Ephrayim J. Naiman @ AT&T Information Systems Laboratories (201) 576-6259
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