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From: tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Tim Northrup)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Fix for one spacewars 'bug'
Message-ID: <3687@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Date: 9 Jun 88 14:56:26 GMT
References: <4348@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Organization: BRS Information Technologies, Latham NY
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From an article by kus3@sphinx.uchicago.edu (Bob Kusumoto):
> 
> argh! somehow it messes up the viewscreen in vt100 mode here (BSD). Seems to
> add a character where there should be a line feed or carriage return in the 
> window. Maybe there should be a way to look up the enviromental termcap
> instead of refering to the termcap file?

I got the same problem with the VT100 entry -- it seems that the delay
notation in the termcap entries (any numbers after an = are supposed to
be used as some kind of delay value), are not being interpreted by this
program and are just being put out with the escape sequence.  This really
does mess up the display.

We have a separate entry in our termcap file which does not have delay
values specified, and this seems to work okay.

Another thing I don't like is that the termcap file defined in $TERMCAP
in the environment is NOT being used!  The program seems to go for /etc/termcap
exclusively.  I agree that this should be changed!  Is anyone currently looking
into this stuff?
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