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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: bug in pg on System V
Keywords: pg autowrap no-newline
Message-ID: <10038@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 16 Apr 89 03:27:33 GMT
References: <4935@ingr.com> <464@b11.INGR.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <464@b11.INGR.COM> ingr!b11!guy (Guy Streeter) writes:
>The auto-wrap function of the DEC VTxxx-series does function in
>exactly the way expected of the auto-margin capability of terminfo,
>but that's another posting.

Excuse me, but it most certainly does not.
The VT100's margin wrap feature is exceedingly baroque and does
not match the model associated with termcap/terminfo "am" capability,
which describes a simple immediately-wraparound feature (the VT100
maintains internal state and defers wraparound until it thinks it
should have been done, but it gets confused by certain character
sequences).
VT100 termcap/terminfo descriptions should NOT specify "am" even if
the margin wrap option of the terminal is enabled.