sysline(1) does not use environment TERMCAP

[David Herron -- One of the vertebrae]

As long as people are talking about sysline ...


We have a number of terminals here which if you print in the last
character position on the screen the terminal does a "CR".  If this
was done as part of a status line update, the following "fs" (from 
status-line) stuff ends up with the cursor at the beginning of the line
that it originally came from.

This is (at least) on Ampex 210's and TVI 950's.  (I think).  I know this
is for certain on the Ampex 210's.  (A210's are *VERY* similar to TVI925's)

The fix we had here .. er .. well, the fix hasn't survived over the years
I'm afraid.  It was fixed under 4.3bsd as I recall but when we back-pedalled
to Ultrix v2.2 (now v3.0) the fixed version was lost.  But the fix was
to make sure it *NEVER* printed beyond column 79.  If I remember aright
there is some code which checks a setting in the termcap entry, and we
changed that code to be one character more stringent than before.
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