The following reply was made to PR lib/30978; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: lib-bug-people@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
	netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: lib/30978: curses library
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:07:47 +0200

 >> NetBSD's curses isn't drawing in the lower-right corner,
 >> to avoid scrolling, probably done by shifting a character into the corner.
 > 
 > Yes.  This is historical behaviour of our curses library.  It's probably
 > sensible to remove this now.  Any terminals that can't handle it could
 > have a capability added to their termcap entry.
 
 Even if it's unsafe to draw in the bottom left corner (due to risk of
 unwanted scrolling), one should be able to adjust the background colour
 by positioning the cursor there and then using clear-to-end-of-line or
 clear-to-end-of-screen (assuming the terminal has the back_color_erase
 capability).
 
 --apb (Alan Barrett)