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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: BSD 4.3 Curses and scrolling
Keywords: curses scrolling insert delete
Message-ID: <7600@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 31 Mar 88 22:55:34 GMT
References: <573@io.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <573@io.UUCP> lee (Lee Kamentsky) writes:
>As far as I can tell, my copy of the "curses" library (BSD 4.3
>distributed by Sun) doesn't take advantage of the insert or
>delete line features of terminals.  It seems to just repaint when
>it could do some intelligent scrolling.

Check that the al, dl, AL, DL capabilities are present in your
/etc/termcap.  We had them disabled on our systems for a while
because someone was annoyed at the visual appearance, but they've
been reinstated recently.