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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Reverse video is blank reverse blocks in NetBSD-0.9
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1993 16:05:23 GMT
Message-ID: <CCqI11.CLL@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
References: <1993Aug30.050447.14164@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> <CCn7FF.7nL@cyb.fred.com>
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In article <CCn7FF.7nL@cyb.fred.com> loodvrij@cyb.fred.com (Bruce 'Loodvrij' Keeler) writes:
> Its because you are using the wrong terminal emulation on the console.  Youre
> probably using something like vt100 which uses the ESC[%d;%dr code to change
> scrolling regions.

The termcap entry for pc3 on 386BSD actually has a deliberate ESC[<something>r
in the entry. Someone liked their color choices so much they decided everyone
should use them. Take that bit out completely... it's pointless, and messes
up on a mono monitor.
-- 
Peter da Silva.  <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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