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From: st@epcc.ed.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
Subject: Re: PCVT/termcap problem?
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Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 13:09:23 GMT
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In article <4gag8u$2nj@news.whirlpool.com>, Doug Wegscheid
(wegscd@whirlpool.com) wrote:
> [...]
> Second, I deleted the existing termcap entry and put the recommended
> ones from /src/sys/arch/i386/isa/pcvt/Etc/Termcap into my termcap and
> did the cap_mkdb. After this, using a ttyv* got worse - it seems to
> have forgotten about carriage returns!

Do "stty opost" to fix this. I think you'll also need "stty -oxtabs" to
get the tab stops right. Also try the VT220 mode (pcvt25 rather than
pcvt25h) and see if that's better.

> Did I miss something on the config, or is there a driver or termcap
> problem?

As far as I can tell, pcvt 3.32 *does* need some fixing.

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Scott Telford, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre,        <s.telford@ed.ac.uk>
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