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From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: terminfo
Message-ID: <8128@elsie.UUCP>
Date: 27 Aug 88 20:23:44 GMT
References: <508@altos86.UUCP> <13202@mimsy.UUCP>
Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
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> I hear someone asking: `what is wrong with termcap, anyway?'  All
> right, quick, tell me how you convert a cursor position to a base 8
> one's complement row number offset by ' ' followed by a base 8 one's
> complement column number offset by ' ' and occupying two characters
> if and only if the value produced is by the first character is >= 95
> (in which case the first character is stopped at 95 and the second
> is summed into the first, after bit-flipping and converting back from
> octal)?. . .The only feature I made up was the base 8 stuff.

For our NIH7000's the similar problem got solved this way:

	:cm=%r\E_\
%D%>\60\200%\>40\240%\>20\300%>\340\01%>\01\337%>\360\377%+\377\
%D%>\60\200%>\40\240%>\20\300%>\340\01%>\01\337%>\360\377%+\377:-)
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