Re: Termcap in kernel V 2.1.35

Richard B. Johnson (root@analogic.com)
Tue, 22 Apr 1997 07:31:28 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Keith Owens wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Apr 1997 21:05:46 -0400 (EDT),
> "Richard B. Johnson" <root@analogic.com> wrote:
> >Termcap seems to be broken in 2.1.35.....
> >What I type to the on the "console" is fine. What is echoed is bad with
> >some lower-case letters. For instance "e" becomes "^%" and "s" becomes
> >"^3". This does not show up with the bash shell. However, with cat or
> >some programs that look at "stdin", the echo is bad for some characters.
>
> If you have ncurses, try the reset command, see if that clears the
> problem. There is an intermittent problem with selection that exhibits
> this symptom and reset clears it, never annoyed me enough to track it
> down.
>
Reset doesn't fix it.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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