[18261] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.4.11: termcap, as used by tcsh, /usr/bin/less, vi, etc.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Tue Sep 12 17:35:54 2000
To: <lcs@mit.edu>
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From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 12 Sep 2000 17:35:48 -0400
In-Reply-To: Larry Stone's message of "Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:30:22 EDT"
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<lcs@MIT.EDU> (Larry Stone) writes:
> Various flaky behavior of screen updating, e.g. "/usr/bin/less"
> shows the second screenful in reverse-video (same as the one in
> sipb locker) , not turning it off after the tag under the first
> one; /bin/athena/tcsh command-line editing and /bin/vi do not
> echo edits correctly and need constant refreshing, etc. This is
> with TERM=xterm, changing it to TERM=xterm-r6 is less flaky but
> still not right. Something is probably wrong with the "xterm"
> termcap, which seems to be tailored for other Red Hat systems.
It's tailored for modern XFree86 xterm. Setting TERM to xterm-old
works well in my experience, as does running xterm-color out of
outland rather than the vendor binary.
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
