From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 22 06:42:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA21458 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 06:42:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from cs.iastate.edu (cs.iastate.edu [129.186.3.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA21449 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 06:42:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from stimpy.cs.iastate.edu (stimpy.cs.iastate.edu [129.186.3.20]) by cs.iastate.edu (8.7.4/8.7.1) with ESMTP id IAA12556; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 08:42:03 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (ghelmer@localhost) by stimpy.cs.iastate.edu (8.7.4/8.7.1) with SMTP id IAA16013; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 08:43:39 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: stimpy.cs.iastate.edu: ghelmer owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 08:43:38 -0600 (CST) From: Guy Helmer To: Greg Lehey cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Has anyone ported hytelnet? In-Reply-To: <199611221055.LAA00568@freebie.lemis.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Greg Lehey wrote: > Guy Helmer writes: > > I've been fooling around with getting hytelnet going on a friend's FreeBSD > > 2.1.5 box for an upcoming Internet class he's running, and I'm having > > problems getting hytelnet working properly -- it's having problems > > displaying information as an apparent result of doing some things with > > curses that it shouldn't. "Steve " sent me a copy of hytelnet with a few minimal but key changes from the original, and it runs fine with -lcurses. If anyone needs diffs, I could probably provide them. > > I've finally got it mostly working with > > ncurses, but where an inverse text area marks the potential selection, the > > inverse area appears with an annoying added <2> appended to the head and > > tail of the inverse text. The termcap definition shouldn't be a problem > > -- I was telnet'ed in from an xterm session, and every other full screen > > app works fine... > > Even so, it looks *very* much like a termcap problem. > [...] > Could it be that your hytelnet is reading the termcap definitions from > a different place? termcap used to be in /etc/termcap, and later it > got moved to /usr/share/misc/termcap. The system was upgraded a while back from a 1.x to a 2.1.x system, so perhaps it does have a wrong /etc/termcap or /usr/share/misc/termcap... > On my system, they're identical, but your mileage may vary. You may > like to run ktrace against it (you'll need to have it enabled in the > kernel by including 'options KTRACE'): > > ktrace -i -tn hytelnet > kdump | more Great idea -- I'll keep it in mind. Guy Helmer, Computer Science Grad Student, Iowa State - ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer Looking for a stable, standard & free UNIX-like O/S? http://www.freebsd.org