korn@datagen.UUCP (07/14/86)
I was recently helping a friend to install PC/VI Version 1.02 when
I came across a problem where the status line was not being cleared
correctly when inputing text on the last line of the screen.
As this caused the screen to get messed up as text continued to be
input, it was quite annoying.
As it was about 11:30PM on Sunday evening and couldn't get technical
support from Custom Software, I began looking into a couple of things.
What I found was that their TERMCAP entry for the IBM-PC with ANSI.SYS
driver did not have an entry that it should have, namely 'ce' (clear
to end of line). Adding this entry both fixed my friends problem
and increased performance (since PC/VI could take advantage of this
capability instead of having to fudge it). The TERMCAP change involves
adding the following capability:
ce=\E[K
John Korn
Data General Corp.
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