Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 08:37:52 +0100 (MET) From: hm@ernie.altona.ppp.net (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: Small syscons change Message-ID: <m0rSga0-0002OfC@ernie.altona.ppp.net> In-Reply-To: <199501130037.LAA17920@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jan 13, 95 11:37:42 am
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>From the keyboard of Bruce Evans:
>
> 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 is the automargin capability, also known as wraparound. it means that
when a line reaches the right edge of the screen, the terminal
automaticcally continues on the next line.
(termcap & terminfo, O'Reilly & Associates, 1992)
hellmuth
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