OT: broken/useless ansi - console driver??

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

John Esak propounded (on Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:23:51AM -0400):
| Okay JP says the at386ei termcap is niether broken or useless.  I disagree.
| His explanation that it is merely the Unixware  something or another doesn't
| quite address the situation... which as I see it is this.
| 
| You are working on the SCO OpenServer console... you are working fine with
| nary a problem for just about 17 or so years!  Then one day, the new version
| of SCO Open Server comes out and the console STOPS working properly in
| nearly every significant way.  There is no explanation of how to make it
| work like it used to work. There is no conversion provided to help you make
| it work like it used to work. It is just provided completely broken and
| non-working... notwithstanding what JP says about it.  Should you try using
| the old ansi termcap or termio that you've been using for the past 17
| years... nothing, graphics, nor color, nor just about anything works
| correctly.

No, on the console, you just use the at386-ie termcap. 
You need to make two modifications: stty flush= '', and change
GZ to octal 275.
If you add PV, it gives you color.

I never played with turning the cursor off and on, but if CF and CN are
missing, just copy in the civis and cvvis values from the terminfo file.


-- 
JP