campbell@maynard.UUCP (01/31/87)
The recently posted VC spreadsheet compiled and ran just fine on my
DEC Rainbow running VENIX 2.0 (a V7 port with many Berkeley-isms).
It also compiled and linked OK on my PC/AT running Microport System V,
but when I run it, the screen is garbage. Cursor positioning and
screen repainting are TOTALLY messed up. Other curses users, however,
like vi and jove, seem to work OK.
Are there known bugs in System V curses, or does VC need help to run
under System V? Has anyone else gotten it running under System V?
--
Larry Campbell The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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In article <821@maynard.BSW.COM> campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes: >It also compiled and linked OK on my PC/AT running Microport System V, >but when I run it, the screen is garbage. Programs that actually use curses, as opposed to those that simply use the termcap emulation routines in terminfo (like vi and jove) are likely to run into a problem in the pre-1.3.8 Microport terminal description. The original ANSI console driver used a character-insert-mode toggle, rather than separate commands to enter and leave the mode. This breaks curses by confusing it as to whether it is in insert mode or not. The solution to this is to untic the ansi terminfo, remove the two caps for start and end insert mode, and re-tic it. This is fixed in 1.3.8, which comes with a whole new ANSI driver and terminfo file. -- Dan Frank ARPA: dan@db.wisc.edu ATT: (608) 255-0002 (home) UUCP: ... uwvax!prairie!dan (608) 262-4196 (office) SNAILMAIL: 1802 Keyes Ave. Madison, WI 53711-2006
jpn@teddy.UUCP (02/02/87)
>It also compiled and linked OK on my PC/AT running Microport System V, >but when I run it, the screen is garbage. Cursor positioning and >screen repainting are TOTALLY messed up. Other curses users, however, >like vi and jove, seem to work OK. This is no guarantee that Microport didn't screw up, since neither "vi" nor "jove" use curses! . .
ron@vsedev.VSE.COM (Ron Flax) (02/03/87)
In article <3731@teddy.UUCP> jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) writes: >>It also compiled and linked OK on my PC/AT running Microport System V, >>but when I run it, the screen is garbage. Cursor positioning and >>screen repainting are TOTALLY messed up. Other curses users, however, >>like vi and jove, seem to work OK. > >This is no guarantee that Microport didn't screw up, since neither >"vi" nor "jove" use curses! > Both vc/sc variants work on my AT under Microport. For both I used CFLAGS=-DSYSV, for sc LFLAGS=-lm -lcurses, and for vc LFLAGS=-lcurses. Sounds like a terminfo problem to me. If you are running the original 1.3.6 ansi terminfo file you will have problems. Try running tic on this one: ansi|fixed ansi standard terminfo for microport console, am, xon, cols#80, lines#24, bel=^G, cr=\r, clear=\E[2J\E[H, el=\E[K, ed=\E[J, cup=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH, cud1=\n, home=\E[H, cub1=\b, cuf1=\E[C, cuu1=\E[A, dch1=\E[P, dl1=\E[M, blink=\E[5m, bold=\E[1m, invis=\E[8m, rev=\E[7m, smso=\E[7m, smul=\E[4m, sgr0=\E[m, rmso=\E[0m, rmul=\E[0m, is2=\E[=h, ich1=\E[@, il1=\E[L, kbs=\b, kcud1=\E[B, khome=\E[H, kcub1=\E[D, knp=\E[V, kpp=\E[U, kcuf1=\E[C, kcuu1=\E[A, dl=\E[%p1%dM, cud=\E[%p1%dB, ich=\E[%p1%d@, il=\E[%p1%dL, cub=\E[%p1%dD, cuf=\E[%p1%dC, cuu=\E[%p1%dA, ind=\n, ht=\t, kf0=\E[M, kf1=\E[N,
grs@houxa.UUCP (02/04/87)
In article <3731@teddy.UUCP>, jpn@teddy.UUCP writes: > >It also compiled and linked OK on my PC/AT running Microport System V, > >but when I run it, the screen is garbage. Cursor positioning and > >screen repainting are TOTALLY messed up. Other curses users, however, > >like vi and jove, seem to work OK. > > This is no guarantee that Microport didn't screw up, since neither > "vi" nor "jove" use curses! vi DOES use curses on SYS V. The source to jove currently posted in mod.sources seems to as well. I've noticed similar problems with the ansi terminfo entry from Multiport. I've had more success with the minansi entry which is a subset. At some point I guess I'll have to debug ansi (Multiport refuses to do it), unless someone out there has already done it. Glenn Sills BTL - Merrimack Valley !houxa!grs (617) 881-6437
dan@prairie.UUCP (02/06/87)
In article <279@houxa.UUCP> grs@houxa.UUCP (G.SILLS) writes: >vi DOES use curses on SYS V. ... jove currently posted in mod.sources >seems to as well. No. They both use the termcap emulation in terminfo. Terminfo happens to reside in libcurses.a. Both vi and jove have a lot of their own code to manage the screen. >At some point I guess I'll have to debug ansi (Multiport refuses to do it), >unless someone out there has already done it. Microport doesn't "refuse to do this". It has been done, along with a redesign of the ansi console driver, in version 1.3.8, which will be along Any Time Now. In the meantime, several people have posted solutions to the problem, so you don't have to debug anything. -- Dan Frank ARPA: dan@db.wisc.edu ATT: (608) 255-0002 (home) UUCP: ... uwvax!prairie!dan (608) 262-4196 (office) SNAILMAIL: 1802 Keyes Ave. Madison, WI 53711-2006