[10135] in Athena Bugs
rsaix 7.4G: show
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gptesler@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Tue Dec 15 15:20:26 1992
From: gptesler@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 15:20:08 EST
System name: m4-035-1
Type and version: POWER 7.4G
Display type: graygda
What were you trying to do?
Display a message containing lines longer than 80 characters. The
long lines were in the header, not the body, though I doubt that's relevant.
My xterm width is 80 characters.
What's wrong:
If there is already text on the screen, portions of it are NOT
erased. Any line in the message that's under 80 characters will be
displayed by clearing the screen line and then displaying the line.
Any line that's between 81 and 160 characters will clear a screen line,
print the first 80 characters on it, then print the remainder on the
following screen line _without_ first clearing it. For example, if
a line in the message is 123 characters, it will be shown on two
screen lines, and whatever stuff was in the last 37 columns of the
second of these lines remains displayed!
Finally, the rest of the window below the message is cleared.
(I haven't tried it with lines beyond 160 characters, or
with messages that require show to break the message into multiple
pages.
What should have happened:
Everything should be cleared!
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
