From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 19 10:48:54 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA19707 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 19 Sep 1995 10:48:54 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA19702 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 1995 10:48:52 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA10194; Tue, 19 Sep 1995 10:45:47 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199509191745.KAA10194@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: SYSCONS PROBLEM IDENTIFIED To: ache@astral.msk.su (=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=) Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 10:45:47 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org In-Reply-To: from "=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=" at Sep 19, 95 08:02:20 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 947 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > >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. The SCO Color console, which I wrote the emulation for in the commercial comm software products TERM and TinyTERM, does not do this. The curses package (apparently) doesn't expect this. I can not run elm on a SunOS, Solaris, or Linux box without getting a reverse screen. > 2) ncurses package takes advantage of this feature when > filling screen with color instead of putting spaces. I didn't say a color set would not cause this to happen. Colors and attributes which map to colors should be treated seperately. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.