ISC 2.2 and SCO Professional seem incompatible

[Larry Williamson]

In article <8436 at uudell.dell.com> Randy Davis writes:
 > In article <LARRY.90Aug14151705 at focsys.uucp> Larry Williamson (ME!) writes:
 > [.(isc 2.2)...]
 > |SCO's Professional is not cooperating.
 > |
 > |Procalc is okay, it is the pro manager that is not working. When I
 > |start "pro", the process rapidly consumes all of the available memory,
 > |growing to consume all of the swap space too.
 > |
 > |The version is 2.0.0.
 > |
 > |Has anyone had any trouble with this package?
 > 
 >   Yep.  Try changing your TERM variable to something like "ansi".
 > TERM=at386 seems to cause the swap space problem.
 > 
 >   Don't ask me *why*, I just noticed it a while back when
 > performing software compatibility testing of our version of UNIX
 > (Dell UNIX 1.1, an enhanced UNIX based on ISC's) with some new
 > machines.

That was it! What on earth could cause such bizzare behaviour?!?!?

I had noticed that the ISC UNIX 2.2 terminfo for at386 is still broken.
I had to fix it in 2.0.2 and now I've applied the fixes to 2.2. This
has corrected this problem.

My memory is not that great, but I think the terminfo for at386 has
been broken since before 1.0.6 days. After every release, patches and
fixes are posted, but only us lowly users seem to pay any attention to
these fixes.

I will re-post this *correct* at386 entry if anyone is interested. I
doubt it is entirely bug free, but it does the obvious things right
(gnu emacs likes it, for example!).

Thanks for the pointer Randy.

-Larry