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Date:      Fri, 13 Jan 1995 06:38:48 +0300
From:      "Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu
Subject:   Re: Small syscons change
Message-ID:  <FT8NV5leS9@astral.msk.su>
In-Reply-To: <199501130247.UAA18252@bonkers.taronga.com>; from Peter da Silva at Thu, 12 Jan 1995 20:47:12 -0600 (CST)
References:  <199501130247.UAA18252@bonkers.taronga.com>

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In message <199501130247.UAA18252@bonkers.taronga.com> Peter da Silva
    writes:

>> 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?

"am" means _normal_ linewrap, not VT100 one.

>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.

It is "xn" (termcap) and "xenl" (terminfo), in addition to "am".

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