rich@sdcc13.UUCP (rich) (09/13/85)
has anyone else had trouble getting the visual star trek to run
on a vax 11/780 running unix 4.2 ? i get '2J' all over the screen
when it attempts cursor movement.
thanks,
rich
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...ihnp4!sdcsvax!sdcc13!richrupprech@bbnccv.UUCP (Wolfgang Rupprecht) (09/17/85)
Problem: cursor positioning just leaves "2J"s on the screen. This happens if you are using a vt-100/ansi escape sequences. (I know, It had me puzzled for a while too.) The root of the problem is with a set of arrays (of size 4 bytes, I believe) that are supposed to hold the vital termcap entries. Unfortunatly, they are too small to hold the ansi escape sequences. You can try the vt-52 versions, if your terminal accepts them, or you can just make the arrays a bit larger. Sorry about the vagueness, but I no longer have the original trek programs. (I hacked all of the cursor stuff out, and used libcurses. This works MUCH faster for 1200 baud lines.) -wr
rbp@investor.UUCP (Bob Peirce) (09/19/85)
> has anyone else had trouble getting the visual star trek to run > on a vax 11/780 running unix 4.2 ? i get '2J' all over the screen > when it attempts cursor movement. Ditto here. I copmpiled the program and ran it from an Ampex D150 with no problems. When I tried it from a Microterm Act IV (Remember those!), the screen was somewhat scrambled. When I rna it from a Falco Fame II (Vt100 mode) I got the above problem. Looks to me like a termcap description problem _EXCEPT_ everything else seems to work OK on all our terminals. I too would like some clues. -- Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA uucp: ...!{allegra, bellcore, cadre, idis} !pitt!darth!investor!rbp 412-471-5320 NOTE: Mail must be < 30K bytes/message