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Date:      Mon, 17 Nov 1997 10:20:37 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk>
To:        Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gnu/5039: libdialog fails to resore terminal
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.971117101848.9100F-100000@dylan.visint.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <87wwi8m059.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>

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On 17 Nov 1997, Thomas Gellekum wrote:

> Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> writes:
> 
> >  Ok, usually I do the following:
> >  
> >  1) start a clean xterm or rxvt
> >  	[There's no problem with syscons, not tried console vt220]
> >  
> >  2) rlogin <somemachine>  [same problem locally though]
> >  3) Run dialog or sysinstall or something like that.
> >  4) press cursor up to get my last command (zsh thing)
> >  5) Find that my terminal is printing 'A' instead of giving me my
> >     previous command.
> >  6) type reset and then re-reverse my xterm colours.
> 
> That means that zsh (and pdksh, btw) sets the cursor keys to the
> `application keypad' mode and leaving the dialog (and any other
> ncurses-based) application resets to `cursor keypad' mode. This is
> really annoying, just as bad as resetting the console to white on
> black when you had changed the colors to black on white.

So it's still a case of the application failing to restore the values that
had been set by it's parent shell? (I thought ncurses would handle this by
resetting to the values that it started with, not exitting to what it
thinks is best.)

	Steve.

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