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From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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Subject: Re: Small syscons change
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 20:47:12 -0600 (CST)
Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu
In-Reply-To: <199501130037.LAA17920@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jan 13, 95 11:37:42 am
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> elvis thinks that the "am" termcap capability means that the cursor
> automatically wraps to column 0 of the next line when a character is
> printed in the last column.  Is this what "am" means?

Yes.

Traditionally on VT100 style terminals you turn off "am" and turn off ALL
line wrap. it's annoying in the shell but it makes things work for pretty
much all curses variants.

There is no termcap or terminfo attribute that I know of that marks DEC
style line wrapping.

A lot of programs just blow it off and only use columns 0-78.