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From: daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Broken curses?
Message-ID: <279@marob.MASA.COM>
Date: 16 May 88 16:52:04 GMT
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In-Reply-To: <203@mutley.UUCP>

In article <203@mutley.UUCP> you write:
>........................................................  The bottom line
>of the windows will just be written over, and no scrolling occurs.  The 
>TERM is vt100.  Scrollok has been set TRUE.

Perhaps the problem is not with Curses at all, but Termcap. You might
want to check IS, LI, AL & DL. IS might contain mode settings prohibitting
scrolling or defining a scrolling-region. LI might be set wrong. Running
Vi on a vt100 using an 'ansi' Termcap (25 lines) produces a continuously
overwritten bottom line w/poor scrolling. AL & DL didn't exist in many
old vt100 Termcaps (of which Venix/11 is one for sure).

>The curses is 4.3BSD (4.2BSD and Venix/11 2.0 also).

I thought we were the only firm in existence still running Venix/11 2.0.
VenturCom doesn't even acknowledge the existence of PDP/11s any more :-)


Dave Hammond
DSI Communications, Inc.
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