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From: rd@tarpit.UUCP (Bob Thrush)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: screen problems with 286 unix
Summary: ansi emulation has problem with "rep" capability
Keywords: ansi curses pcomm vnews
Message-ID: <115@tarpit.UUCP>
Date: 4 Nov 88 01:08:21 GMT
References: <185@trevan.UUCP>
Reply-To: rd@tarpit.UUCP (Bob Thrush)
Organization: Automation Intelligence,Inc; Orlando,FL
Lines: 33

In article <185@trevan.UUCP> trevor@trevan.UUCP (trevor) writes:
>
>	I have just tried to run pcomm (patch level 5) on my system and I
>find that the screen gets slightly garbeled. It seems that some characters
>get missed it looks something like this.
> [deleted]
>	I suspect curses is broke but I would like to know if anyone can help.

I discovered that the ansi terminfo that came with an earlier version
solved the above problem.  I prowled around in the terminfo and found
that deleting the "rep=...," capability from the ansi-24 terminfo
apparently corrected the problem.  The ansi emulation doesn't handle
this correctly.

The above refers to Version 2.3.1 (beta).  I don't have 2.4 yet so I
can't add anything to that discussion.

If you want to try removing the rep capability from the ansi terminfo,
do the following:

	untic ansi >ansi.save
	cp ansi.save ansi.new
	delete the "rep=%p1%c\E[%p2%{1}%-%db, " string from ansi.new
	tic ansi.new

You will probably need to have root privileges to do this.
Hope this helps.

>
>			regards trevor
-- 
Bob Thrush                 UUCP: {rtmvax,ucf-cs}!tarpit!rd
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