OT: linux vs vt100 termcap problems + screen - help!

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Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Bob Rasmussen been jivin' 'bout like:
> A couple initial things:
> 
> 1) Do you know that 'screen' is color-compatible?

Yes, screen was made 8-bit and colour-compatible somewhere around 2.9 or
3.2 or something.  I'm on 4.0.2.

> 2) Does either or both Linux box(es) have LANG set with a "UTF-8" suffix?

Both linux boxes have LANG=en_US,UTF-8.

Additionally, mutt is misbehaving on both a linux remote box -and- a
Solaris remote box that has a linux termcap entry on it.  And the Solaris
box has no LANG variable.

> Background:
> 
> 3) VT220 doesn't do color. That's ONE of the main differences between 
> VT220 and Linux.

Which would actually be fine.  I'm more concerned about getting the correct
arrow characters in mutt, and -contiguous- screen drawing (even in
monochrome) than I am with maintaining colour.

Oh, for what it's worth, filePro in this same environment behaves just like
yast does--it doesn't draw all its colour areas, only where there are
characters.  I've been down this road before, I'm just determined to kill
the problem once and for all.

> Other tests:
> 
> 4) What if you remove 'screen' from the pipeline?

If I remove screen from the pipeline, mutt draws its arrows correctly and
draws its colour to the end of the line width instead of the last printed
character on the line.  YaST will draw a full screen in complete colour,
end to end, top to bottom, no gaps.

> 5) What if you SSH to the SAME box?

Now that -is- interesting.  YaST draws completely wall to wall if I ssh to
the same box.  Can't really test mutt that way because I don't have mutt
set up for real use on the linux boxes, and there aren't threads there with
which to see the arrows.  But YaST is actually fine ssh'd to the same box
from inside screen.

Giant, "WTF?"  :)

Thanks for taking a look at this, Bob!

BTW...I -really- like Anzio Lite 16.2.  It looks really sweet with the
raster background!  The contrast and brightness controls were genius!

mark->