cwj@csadfa.oz (10/22/85)
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suggests using "tputs(tgoto...))" rather than "fputs(tgoto...)"
in vtrek.
This is necessary to deal with padding correctly,
BUT a vt100 still gets 'J's and no proper cursor positioning,
as several people have reported.
Reason: insufficient buffer space allocated to the termcap "cl" string
(which therefore overwrites "cm" - with a 'J') when calling "tgetstr" in
termio.c:terminit function.
Minimal Fix:
in file termio.c, change declaration "char cl[5];" to "char cl[10];".
(The better fix is to use the "char **" parameter to "tgetent" to assist you
in allocating space to each entry, as much as it actually needs out of a larger
array, along the lines of
char * cl, *cm; /* terminal control strings */
char tentries[100]; /* storage area for terminal controls */
...
p = tentries;
cl = p;
tgetstr("cl", &p);
cm = p;
tgetstr("cm", &p);
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AUSTRALIA CSNET: cwj@csadfa.ozrobert@gitpyr.UUCP (Robert Viduya) (10/23/85)
The real solution to fixing vtrek is to make it use curses. I've got a fixed
version that runs perfectly well on an AT&T 3B2 running SysV with curses. If
I get enough requests, I'll post it. BSD folks will probably have to change
a couple of lines in it (cbreak/crmode and incompatibilities like that), but
that shouldn't be real difficult.
It works faster too, if you're on a low-speed line.
robert
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BITNET: CC100RV @ GITVM1dta@cpsc53.UUCP (Doug Anderson) (10/24/85)
> > The real solution to fixing vtrek is to make it use curses. I've got a fixed > version that runs perfectly well on an AT&T 3B2 running SysV with curses. If ^^ > I get enough requests, I'll post it. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > robert > -- > Robert Viduya 01111000 > Office of Computing Services > Georgia Institute of Technology > Consider this one of mayn requests. I gave up on vtrek on my 3B2 and would like a copy of the "fixed" version. Thanks Doug Anderson