RE: ncurses/termcap, just won't clear the screen?

[kunglao at prairienet dot org]

> kunglao@prairienet.org wrote:
> > 
> > I've just rebuilt termcap & ncurses, that went fine.  But now I'm 
> > trying to run some of the test programs that ncurses has.  And it 
> > appears that it just cannot erase the screen.  The curses is set to 
> > the top of the window, but all the text is still there.  I've tried a 
> > few different things for my TERM env variable, linux, ansi, pc-ansi, 
> > vt100,  etc.  They all behaved the same.
> > 
> 
> Is your /etc/termcap right?

copied from /usr/etc after the install.  I have now found that unixpc 
and vt200 can clear the screen, but then they cannot do things like 
color, inverse, etc. in the ncurses tests.  I'll have to skim through 
the termcap and see what it's doing different with these.


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