pauldan@hou2e.UUCP (P.SAUNDERS) (05/02/85)
<< you feel light-headed >> I'm in the middle of a good game. A strange thing has occured, though... whenever I invoke rogue with my save file, the terminal driver seems messed up. Most things are displayed correctly, but it appears that things go nuts at tab stops (every 8 characters); it starts to leave some blank spaces at these places. Sort of. Anyway, it's not working correctly. Another example: when there's a message (e.g. the trogdolyte hit), the message gets printed, and then when "--more--" gets printed, the message gets wiped out. Anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening (I'm on a vt100)??? Thanks in advance, Dan Masi allegra!ark2!dan or allegra!hou2e!pauldan
george@mnetor.UUCP (George Hart) (05/03/85)
> << you feel light-headed >> > > I'm in the middle of a good game. A strange thing has occured, though... > whenever I invoke rogue with my save file, the terminal driver seems messed > up. Most things are displayed correctly, but it appears that things go > nuts at tab stops (every 8 characters); it starts to leave some blank spaces > at these places. Sort of. Anyway, it's not working correctly. Another > example: when there's a message (e.g. the trogdolyte hit), the message gets > printed, and then when "--more--" gets printed, the message gets wiped out. > > Anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening (I'm on a vt100)??? > > Thanks in advance, > > Dan Masi allegra!ark2!dan or allegra!hou2e!pauldan That sounds suspicously like tab characters are being expanded to spaces somehow. Unless I'm mistaken, rogue uses something like the CURSES moveto routine to optimize cursor movement. One of the things it will do is use hardware tabs if the terminal has them. However, if the tabs are expanded to spaces or the hardware tabs are not in the right columns, things can get very confused! Is it possible that your terminal tab settings have changed since your started your game? Have your stty settings changed (although rogue may set these on startup anyway)? Then again, it could be the "scroll of screw up terminal driver" :-) -- Regards, George Hart, Computer X Canada Ltd. {cbosgd, decvax, harpo, ihnp4}!utcs!mnetor!george