henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (03/27/85)
Some work with the Tatung terminal exposed a latent bug in the way
termcap and getty interact to initialize tab stops on vt100-ish terminals.
The initialization sequence for vt100ish things assumes that newline
moves the cursor back to column 1, so tab stops can be set properly.
Not so in raw mode, which is what getty is using. (The notion of having
getty work in cbreak mode surfaces again...) The effect showed up only
if one signed off with a control-D, since the "bye" command has the cursor
in column 1 anyway when the shell dies. For the moment, I have "fixed"
the problem by stuffing a CR into the right place in the initialization
sequence.
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Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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