From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 12 17:35:18 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id RAA18690 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 17:35:18 -0800 Received: from po4.andrew.cmu.edu (PO4.ANDREW.CMU.EDU [128.2.11.131]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA18677; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 17:35:15 -0800 Received: (from postman@localhost) by po4.andrew.cmu.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id UAA20315; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 20:34:44 -0500 Received: via switchmail; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 20:34:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from pcs28.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 20:33:57 -0500 (EST) Received: from pcs28.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 20:33:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from mms.4.60.Nov..4.1993.10.47.44.sun4c.411.EzMail.Phred.2.0.CUILIB.3.45.SNAP.NOT.LINKED.pcs28.andrew.cmu.edu.sun4c.411 via MS.5.6.pcs28.andrew.cmu.edu.sun4c_411; Thu, 12 Jan 1995 20:33:55 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <0j5RW3y00iVGA5wmQ6@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 20:33:55 -0500 (EST) From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Small syscons change Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Excerpts from internet.computing.freebsd-hackers: 13-Jan-95 Re: Small syscons change by Andrew A. Chernov@astral > VT100 have very different behaviour then simple line wrap: > cursor stuck in last position until next char will be printed. > Standard linewarp goes to first column immediately after > printing char in last column. > You mast have an option (ioctl?) in syscons to emulate VT100 line wrap. Screen "does the right thing" if the termcap has the wrapping behavior of the terminal marked properly. Screen used to work fairly decently for me running under syscons emulating a vt100, although I haven't used screen or syscons in a while. alex