[10083] in Athena Bugs
add termcap alias in the ultix termcap
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (thorne@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Wed Nov 18 09:45:19 1992
From: thorne@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU, bug-dialup@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 09:44:59 EST
Hi,
I've found that the dos machines when emulating a vt100 send the
string "dec-vt100". This is handled by the BSD termcap file as just an
alias for vt100. The problem is that the ultix machines do not have this.
For example, if you connect to an ultrix dialup machine and try to run programs
which expect these enviroment variables to be set the display gets messed up.
This would happen with curses based programs such as Techinfo etc. It would be
good to get this fixed in the next release, so that all the termcaps are the
same. The dialup machines could have their entries fixed if there are user
complaints. Not having any idea of the other end's terminal characteristics
can really produce some strange looking results. Let me know if you need more
information, examples etc. Thanks.
Scott
