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

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>From inside the gravity well of a singularity, Brian K. White shouted:
> 
> Ugh, I see nothing about setting answerback in screen docs, and a quick 
> test of screen shows that it does in fact "eat" a ^E without either 
> answering back itself or passing the ^E to the end terminal and passing 

Yes, yes screen is eating answerback.  *sigh*  *KICK screen*

> Also my quick test did not use any extra options to try to be 8bit clean 
> or utf8 clean etc.

The latest versions are 8bit by default.

> So you can detect screen by knowing that your real terminal DOES 
> answerback, but screen DOES NOT answerback.

If -I- am the only one logging in, sure.  What if someone uses something
that doesn't do answerback, or it does do answerback but it's not defined?
Not a very robust test.  :/

> This all might be out the window if your 8bit clean configuration 
> results in the real terminal being able to answerback as if screen were 
> not there.

8bit clean eats answerback in screen.  *grouse*

For software that I've loved for yea some 19 years, it's REALLY pissing me
off the last few days.  It really is a thing of beauty, but it's not
without its limitations.  Thankfully, the benefits vastly outweigh the
annoyances.

Actually, it does make sense in a way, that it eats the ^E.  Same reason
you can't use zmodem and friends inside screen, one presumes.  Still
annoying.

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