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From: dan@prairie.UUCP (Daniel M. Frank)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: vc/sc vs. S5 curses
Message-ID: <409@prairie.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 1-Feb-87 12:51:05 EST
Article-I.D.: prairie.409
Posted: Sun Feb  1 12:51:05 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Feb-87 22:43:28 EST
References: <821@maynard.BSW.COM>
Reply-To: dan@prairie.UUCP (Daniel M. Frank)
Organization: Prairie Computing, Madison, Wisconsin
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Keywords: curses termlib S5

In article <821@maynard.BSW.COM> campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes:
>It also compiled and linked OK on my PC/AT running Microport System V,
>but when I run it, the screen is garbage.  

   Programs that actually use curses, as opposed to those that simply use the 
termcap emulation routines in terminfo (like vi and jove) are likely to run
into a problem in the pre-1.3.8 Microport terminal description.  The original
ANSI console driver used a character-insert-mode toggle, rather than separate
commands to enter and leave the mode.  This breaks curses by confusing it
as to whether it is in insert mode or not.

   The solution to this is to untic the ansi terminfo, remove the two
caps for start and end insert mode, and re-tic it.

   This is fixed in 1.3.8, which comes with a whole new ANSI driver and
terminfo file.


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