OT: broken/useless ansi - console driver??

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2005, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
>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.
>| 
...
>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.

This sounds like something the average OpenServer user or even consultant
would figure out immediately.

One of the major strong points of SCO Xenix->OpenServer has always been
backwards compatibility with few surprises.

Bill
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