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Date:      Wed, 27 Mar 2002 12:21:45 -0700
From:      "Seth Hieronymus" <sethh@principia.edu>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Fw: all my curses programs are screwed up
Message-ID:  <OE105ACTz8RQyi0Jhsg0000219b@hotmail.com>

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Nevermind,

Making sure that TERM=cons25 apparently fixed the problems.

Seth

----- Original Message -----
From: "Seth Hieronymus" <sethh@principia.edu>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, 2002 March 27 10:45
Subject: all my curses programs are screwed up


> I installed a new installation of FBSD on a computer yesterday, and
somewhere
> in the middle of the installation (I think it was while scp'ing a large
number
> of files, eg a directory -- I know I should tar them up), something gets
> screwed up, and now every program with curses does not work.  sysinstall
just
> shows a bunch of q's and x's where there should be color bars, and the arrow
> keys exit you from the program.  In vi the arrow keys and page-down/up don't
> work, and scrolling down past the first page just runs all the lines over
one
> another.  In nano, the arrow keys work but scrolling is broken.  Oh, the
arrow
> keys work in the terminal.
>
> It happened twice.  I reinstalled from cd which fixed it the whole thing,
but
> then I scp'ed again, which if my theory is correct broke it again.  The
> install was 4.4 release, which I then cvsuped and world and kernel built to
> 4.5 stable, which didn't fix it.  Rebooting does not fix it.  I've tried
> setting all the terminal settings back to normal values with stty.  I've
tried
> resetting the terminal with tset.  I've tried reloading the keyboard map to
> various mappings with kbdcontrol.  Nothing that I could think of works.
>
> It seems to be related somehow to my question a little while ago about why
> arrowing to the first column in vi takes you out of insert mode.  Now, every
> arrow responds the same way -- something is breaking up the escape
sequences.
>
> Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Seth Hieronymus
>

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