From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 18 21:15:30 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA01230 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 21:15:30 -0700 Received: from sequent.kiae.su (sequent.kiae.su [144.206.136.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA01225 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 1995 21:15:23 -0700 Received: by sequent.kiae.su id AA05106 (5.65.kiae-2 ); Tue, 19 Sep 1995 08:04:42 +0400 Received: by sequent.KIAE.su (UUMAIL/2.0); Tue, 19 Sep 95 08:04:41 +0400 Received: (from ache@localhost) by ache.dialup.demos.ru (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA00288; Tue, 19 Sep 1995 08:02:20 +0400 To: hackers@freebsd.org, Terry Lambert References: <199509190208.TAA09038@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199509190208.TAA09038@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert at Mon, 18 Sep 1995 19:08:02 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: Organization: Olahm Ha-Yetzirah Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 08:02:20 +0400 (MSD) X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.40 FreeBSD] From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) X-Class: Fast Subject: Re: SYSCONS PROBLEM IDENTIFIED Lines: 26 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1128 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk In message <199509190208.TAA09038@phaeton.artisoft.com> Terry Lambert writes: >About a week ago, someone was complaining that when an attribute bit >was set and you cleared the screen, that the whole screen went to >that attribute. >Well, the problem is that the attribute state implys a fg/bg color >state change; in reality, the fg/bg color state should be kept seperate >from the attribute state, even if it implies a color state change. >That is, the clear sreen/area/character operations on a console should >take the color into account as if the attributes were at state 0 instead >of using the altered color table. I completely disagree: 1) It is longstanding SYSV console tradition clear all with attribute. 2) ncurses package takes advantage of this feature when filling screen with color instead of putting spaces. -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - FidoNet: 2:5020/230.3 : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849