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From: vp@terpsi.csi.forth.gr (Vassilis Prevelakis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: [NetBSD] Termcap Changes.. Why?
Date: 27 Apr 1993 04:36:12 +0300
Organization: Institute of Computer Science, FORTH Hellas
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rb6775@dclipc18.cen.uiuc.edu (Rafal Krzysztof Boni) writes:

>Hello all...

>	I have noticed that the 386BSD console entry has changes from the stock
>	386BSD 0.1 to NetBSD 0.8.  I mainly noticed because my cursor keys did
>	not work in Elvis when using the console along with the PC3 termcap
>	entry... They work in an Xterm, and they work on the VT100 hooked up
>	to the serial port..
The temcap entry for the console has changed in the patchkit as well
(I have version 0.2.3.-B1).  I had lots of problems running vi on
the console as well, so I had to restore the old entry from
the original sources.

**vp

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