mike@cimcor.MN.ORG (Michael Grenier) (12/21/89)
I found out something that might help those of you trying to use the curses library under DosMerge which I bumped into when building GNU emacs. The console driver is different between the DosMerge kernel and the Normal UNIX kernel. The terminfo entry AT386 reflects the non-DosMerge kernel and can have real problems with the DosMerge console driver. In particular: The vertical position absolute 'vpa' terminfo field is broke in the DosMerge kernel. It positions the cursor one line too low and will never put the cursor on the top line of the screen. The 'rep' repeat terminfo entry is not supported under DosMerge. In both cases, just remove the fields from the terminfo entry for AT386. -Mike Grenier mike@cimcor.mn.org