From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 13 00:02:44 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id AAA29352 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 13 Jan 1995 00:02:44 -0800 Received: from casparc.ppp.net (casparc.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA29342 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 1995 00:02:37 -0800 Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0rSgxN-000HzbC; Fri, 13 Jan 95 09:02 MET Received: by ernie.altona.ppp.net (Smail3.1.29.0 #15) id m0rSga0-0002OfC; Fri, 13 Jan 95 08:37 WET Message-Id: From: hm@ernie.altona.ppp.net (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: Small syscons change To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 08:37:52 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com (FreeBSD Hackers) In-Reply-To: <199501130037.LAA17920@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jan 13, 95 11:37:42 am Reply-To: hm@ernie.altona.ppp.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 646 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >From the keyboard of Bruce Evans: > > elvis thinks that the "am" termcap capability means that the cursor > automatically wraps to column 0 of the next line when a character is > printed in the last column. Is this what "am" means? am is the automargin capability, also known as wraparound. it means that when a line reaches the right edge of the screen, the terminal automaticcally continues on the next line. (termcap & terminfo, O'Reilly & Associates, 1992) hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.ppp.net Hamburg, Europe (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD ?