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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!newsgate.cuhk.edu.hk!newsfeeder.ust.hk!nntp.hk.super.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!news1.erols.com!howland.erols.net!torn!newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!nexus.yorku.ca!rreiner From: rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca (Richard Reiner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: bad vt102/vt220 termcap entry in FreeBSD 2.1? Date: 3 Oct 96 01:39:29 GMT Organization: York University, Ontario, Canada Lines: 13 Message-ID: <rreiner.844306769@nexus.yorku.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: nexus.yorku.ca Several different terminal emulators, none of which have shown errors before, seem to have trouble with the vt102 termcap entry shipped w/ FreeBSD 2.1 (and therefore also with the vt220 termcap entry, since that uses the vt102 entry as a base). Symptoms include getting one garbled line on the screen when doing certain insert-character operations. Falling back to using vt100 termcap entry makes the problem go away, although it costs a bit of screen-update performance. Has anyone seen this problem before? Or is it just the coicidence of the same bug in several of my windows-based telnet clients? Richard