Miquel van Smoorenburg writes: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have a Data General "dumb" terminal hooked up to my linux box through a > >hard wired serial port. The terminal seems to provide 24 lines on the > >screen. Pine handles this fine, but joe and lynx behave as though there > >were one more line than there actually is. The behavior is that as you > >cursor down the screen (in joe), the previous line appears under the > >cursor as you move. Is there an environment variable that I can set to 24 > >(or even smaller) that will make joe and lynx handle the screen correctly? > > Probably a terminfo problem. Your terminal may have auto-wrap (auto-margins) > and terminfo says it doesn't, or vice verse. Also make sure that you do > have the right terminfo entry: if you set term to "linux" its terminfo > entry says it has 25 lines.
joe doesn't use terminfo. It comes with its own (very small) termcap file and uses this. I never had the time to test joe with terminfo support compiled in instead. The upstream author recommends to not use it anyway. Michael -- Michael Meskes | _____ ________ __ ____ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / ___// ____/ // / / __ \___ __________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \__ \/ /_ / // /_/ /_/ / _ \/ ___/ ___/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ___/ / __/ /__ __/\__, / __/ / (__ ) Use Debian Linux! | /____/_/ /_/ /____/\___/_/ /____/
