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From: uz@wuschel.ibb.schwaben.com (Ullrich von Bassewitz)
Subject: Q: Writing to lower right of console
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Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 13:44:28 GMT
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I'm trying to port a program from linux to freebsd. Until now there is only
one problem:
If I write to the last char of the screen (the char in the lower right
corner), a scroll happens and my last line goes one line up, the first
line vanishes.
My program is screen oriented, it has a menu line as the first and a status
line as the last line of the screen. You can imagine, what happens if the
screen scrolls one line up when writing the status line...
I know, that this is not really a freebsd problem, many terminals may have
this too (the Linux console and xterm windows under X don't have it).
With a special terminal, I can tell people, that my program will
not support this terminal - but telling people that the console is not
suppported would be a very unpopular approach :-)
I would be very happy if anyone can help me with this.
Thanks
Uz
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Ullrich von Bassewitz uz@ibb.schwaben.com