bsa@ncoast.UUCP (The WITNESS) (09/17/84)
I have been having problems running Phantasia. It has a tendency to do weird things with lines on my terminal (Superbee). This is not really a bug in phantasia but actually one in either my terminal or the curses library or both. My termil has this thing about the order of a CR/ LF sequence; ^M^J works, but ^J^M causes the current line's memory to be re- located to the beginning of the next line, locking out that line on the screen. The result is less than readable. I fixed this in vi by using the (rather hairy) nl string in the "standard" superbee termcap, but -- and here is the problem with curses -- curses does not look at the nl string. I can't under- stand why it wouldn't, but it doesn't, and we don't have source so I can't fix it. Anyway, I'd like help. The help could be one of: (1) A superbee termcap (or perhaps instructions?) that would make ^J work correctly (2) A fix for curses to read the nl string from the termcap, or perhaps to substitute the do string (3) A version of phantasia that doesn't use curses (maybe it could use vnews's virtterm.c? vnews has no problems) Can anyone out there help me? advTHANKSance, Brandon Allbery (..!ncoast!bsa)