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From: meissner@xyzzy.UUCP (Michael Meissner)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs,comp.bugs.sys5,rec.games.hack
Subject: Re: Nethack Problems
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Date: Mon, 17-Aug-87 11:11:23 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 17 11:11:23 1987
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>  I have nethack working fine on our BSD system. However in trying
> to make it work on our 3b2/310 running system V I always get
> "Terminal must Backspace" in trying to run nethack.  I use vt100
> for my terminal type. Is it a problem with the terminal library

The problem is the standard system V.2 curses library (which includes the
termcap emulation routines), does not return the termcap string "bc" or
the flag "bs".  If you change "bc" (backspace char) to "le" (move cursor
left) everything will be fine, assuming you apply the TERMINFO patches
posted earlier.
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