Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 20:47:12 -0600 (CST) From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu Subject: Re: Small syscons change Message-ID: <199501130247.UAA18252@bonkers.taronga.com> 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.
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