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From: shurr@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug,gnu.emacs,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Problems with GNU-Emacs 18.55 and Interactive 386/ix
Message-ID: <14292@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 23 Feb 90 17:56:02 GMT
References: <1990Feb22.222858.5907@orfeo.radig.de>
Reply-To: shurr@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr,20650,cb,9a110,6148605851)
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In article <1990Feb22.222858.5907@orfeo.radig.de> peter@orfeo.radig.de (Peter Radig) writes:
}I had some problems with building Emacs 18.55 on my Interactive Unix.
}The problems were with curses (garbled screen output either with TERM=
}ansi and TERM=AT386) and with `sysdep.c' (is it ok to undef TIOCGETC
}like it is done under XENIX?).

The terminfo entry for TERM=at386 is screwed up.  A year or so ago, I found
that the obscure and irrelevent-to-at386 "xt" flag is set in the shipped
terminfo entry.  I posted this information which was followed-up with
additional changes by others.  Unfortunately, I have misplaced the complete
list of changes, hopefully someone else has them and will post (please?).

However, I think that removing the "xt" flag is sufficient to get GNU Emacs
working correctly.  You can get a copy of the terminfo "source" for at386
using the command: infocmp at386 >at386.tic.  Edit the file at386.tic and
remove the "xt" flag.  Then compile the new entry with: tic at386.tic.

regards, Larry
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