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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 95 19:38:53 MST
From:      terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
To:        hsu@cs.hut.fi (Heikki Suonsivu)
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: vt100 termcap entry hard-codes scrolling region of 24 lines
Message-ID:  <9503110238.AA00654@cs.weber.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199503102119.XAA17444@shadows.cs.hut.fi> from "Heikki Suonsivu" at Mar 10, 95 11:19:14 pm

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> vt100 termcap entry hard-codes scrolling region of 24 lines?  Is this
> sensible?

It does this because by default the VT100 does not have insert/delete
line (that is, a *real* VT100 doesn't).  It uses the 'sr' to set a
region for line insertion/deletion as a scroll side effect.

Real curses is cool.  8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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