From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 12 19:49:49 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id TAA25052 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 19:49:49 -0800 Received: from sovcom.kiae.su (sovcom.kiae.su [144.206.136.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id TAA25046 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 19:49:47 -0800 Received: by sovcom.kiae.su id AA17495 (5.65.kiae-2 ); Fri, 13 Jan 1995 06:42:12 +0300 Received: (from ache@localhost) by astral.msk.su (8.6.8/8.6.6) id GAA02542; Fri, 13 Jan 1995 06:38:49 +0300 To: Bruce Evans , Peter da Silva Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu References: <199501130247.UAA18252@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199501130247.UAA18252@bonkers.taronga.com>; from Peter da Silva at Thu, 12 Jan 1995 20:47:12 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: Organization: Olahm Ha-Yetzirah Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 06:38:48 +0300 X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.31 FreeBSD] From: "Andrew A. Chernov, Black Mage" X-Class: Fast Subject: Re: Small syscons change Lines: 23 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 963 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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". -- Andrew A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - FidoNet: 2:5020/230.3 : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849