Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 02:05:56 +0300 From: "Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su> To: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>, Wankle Rotary Engine <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Small syscons change Message-ID: <FTKNR5lqb2@astral.msk.su> In-Reply-To: <199501122114.PAA09829@bonkers.taronga.com>; from Peter da Silva at Thu, 12 Jan 1995 15:14:18 -0600 References: <199501122114.PAA09829@bonkers.taronga.com>
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In message <199501122114.PAA09829@bonkers.taronga.com> Peter da Silva
writes:
>DEC's cute but bizzarre line wrap behaviour strikes again.
>You wouldn't believe what I had to do to get it to work right when emulating
>the VT100 on other terminals...
VT100 have very different behaviour then simple line wrap:
cursor stuck in last position until next char will be printed.
Standard linewarp goes to first column immediately after
printing char in last column.
You mast have an option (ioctl?) in syscons to emulate VT100 line wrap.
--
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