curses -- write to lower right corner

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Sat Dec 9 20:25:15 AEST 1989


In article <1153 at pcsbst.UUCP> chr at sws4 writes:
>I'm not able to write to the lower
>right corner of a vt100 terminal using curses. 

Curses cannot write on the lower right corner of any
terminal whose description advertises the "am" capability,
for obvious reasons.  However, the real problem is that your
VT100 termcap or terminfo description is incorrect.  VT100s
do not have a true "am" capability.  You should fix the VT100
description.

Here is my current VT100 termcap entry.  Use the usual tools
to convert it to terminfo.

#
# DEC VT100 with variations for Advanced Video Option and screen width.
# The following SET-UP modes are assumed for normal operation:
#	ANSI_MODE	AUTO_XON/XOFF_ON	NEWLINE_OFF	80_COLUMNS
#	WRAP_AROUND_ON
# Other SET-UP modes may be set for operator convenience or communication
# requirements; I recommend
#	SMOOTH_SCROLL	AUTOREPEAT_ON	BLOCK_CURSOR	MARGIN_BELL_OFF
#	SHIFTED_3_#
# Unless you have a graphics add-on such as Digital Engineering's VT640
# (and even then, whenever it can be arranged!) you should set
#	INTERLACE_OFF
# Hardware tabs are assumed to be set every 8 columns; they can be set up
# by the "reset", "tset", or "tabs" utilities (use vt100-x, 132 columns, for
# this).  I have included some compatible code in "rs" for the VT640 if you
# have one.  No delays are specified; use "stty ixon -ixany" to enable DC3/DC1
# flow control!
# Thanks to elsie!ado (Arthur David Olson) for numerous improvements.
d0|vt100|DEC VT100 with AVO:\
	:ae=^O:as=^N:bl=^G:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:co#80:cr=^M:\
	:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:ct=\E[3g:DO=\E[%dB:do=^J:ho=\E[H:is=\E<\E)0:it#8:\
	:k0=\EOP:k1=\EOQ:k2=\EOR:k3=\EOS:kb=^H:kd=\EOB:ke=\E[?1l\E>:kl=\EOD:\
	:kr=\EOC:ks=\E[?1h\E=:ku=\EOA:l0=PF1:l1=PF2:l2=PF3:l3=PF4:LE=\E[%dD:\
	:le=^H:li#24:ll=\E[24H:mb=\E[5m:md=\E[1m:me=\E[m:mr=\E[7m:ms:nd=\E[C:\
	:nw=\EE:rc=\E8:RI=\E[%dC:\
	:rs=^X\E<\E2\E[?9h^]\E^L^X\E[20l\E[?3;9;6l\E[r\E[m\E[q\E(B^O\E)0\E>:\
	:sc=\E7:se=\E[m:sf=^J:so=\E[7m:sr=\EM:st=\EH:ta=^I:ti=\E[?7l:\
	:te=150\E[?7h:ue=\E[m:UP=\E[%dA:up=\EM:us=\E[4m:vt#3:xo:\
	:cl=\E[H\E[J:\
	:bs:kn#4:pt:
dv|vt100-v|DEC VT100 without AVO:\
	:ue@:us@:\
	:tc=vt100:
d8|vt100-w|DEC VT100 with AVO in 132-column mode:\
	:co#132:ct=\E[?3h\E[g:\
	:rs=^X\E<\E2\E[?9h^]\E^L^X\E[20l\E[?9;6l\E[?3h\
\E[r\E[m\E[q\E(B^O\E)0\E>:\
	:tc=vt100:
d9|vt100-x|DEC VT100 without AVO in 132-column mode:\
	:ct=\E[?3h\E[g:li#14:ll=\E[14H:ue@:us@:\
	:tc=vt100-w:



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