Subject: Re: curses screen
To: NetBSD current-users mailing list <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Valeriy E. Ushakov <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>
List: current-users
Date: 08/22/2005 15:27:22
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 10:38:47 +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:

> If I somehow get my hands on one of those ancient terminals, I'd
> like it to work with NetBSD.  So please do not remove the code
> that's required to handle them.  Instead, I think it would be better
> to use capabilities to describe terminals that need the old
> workarounds.

GNU termcap used to have "LP" capability that indicated that it's safe
to write to the last column of the last row.


SY, Uwe
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