Subject: Re: two questions..
To: None <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Robert Black <r.black@IC.AC.UK>
List: port-arm32
Date: 06/28/1996 14:04:01
On Jun 28,  9:44am, Daniel Pead wrote:
> Subject: Re: two questions..
> On Thu 27 Jun, Ale Terlevich wrote:
> >
> >
> > > 1. : why the heck does the cursor after logging in at terminal 0 always
> > > jump to the middle of the screen ? anybody cured this ? or did I forget
> > > to install a patch ??
> >
> >   set the terminal type to vt220. (I think the default of vt100
> > does as you describe).
>
> When I tried that I had some problems running JMACS. AFAIK the console
> is VT100 only?

I'm afraid so, it doesn't support the full vt220 command set - anything which
uses certain capabilities will go wrong if the term type is set to vt220. I
believe Nuts is working on a new version of the console code, maybe he could
comment on this.

Cheers

Rob Black

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