Subject: misc/2421: [dM] missing termcap flags
To: None <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.ORG>
From: der Mouse <mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/16/1996 07:02:22
>Number: 2421
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: [dM] missing termcap flags
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: misc-bug-people (Misc Bug People)
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu May 16 07:50:01 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: der Mouse
>Organization:
Dis-
>Release: -current as of April 30
>Environment:
Any
>Description:
The termcap entries for vt100 and vt220 (and probably others)
include neither :bc=: nor :bs:, thereby coredumping
/usr/games/snake and telling other, more careful, programs that
the terminals cannot backspace.
>How-To-Repeat:
Read /usr/src/share/termcap/termcap.src, or go run
/usr/games/snake with TERM set to vt100 or vt220 and figure out
why it coredumps.
>Fix:
Add :bs:, since the terminals can backspace with \b.
Alternatively, if the capabilities are so obsolete that NetBSD
wishes to drop support for them, fix snake to assume \b.
der Mouse
mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
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