Yep - the driver really only emulates a vt100 terminal.  Unfortunately,
the /etc/ttys file supplied in the stock 1.2 distribution claims that the
console terminal is a vt220.  So, various programs try to do vt220 things
to a vt100 and voila - things get messed up!

So, Steve, just edit the /etc/ttys file and change vt220 to vt100 and
things will get better!

On Wed, 25 Dec 1996, Ken Nakata wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Dec 1996 15:14:36 -0400,
> sjh3mr@dukes.stark.k12.oh.us (Steven Huwig) wrote:
> >     Could someone please send me working termcap and termcap.db files as
> > soon as possible?
> 
> The one that comes with the distribution *does* work, though.
> 
> > Or tell me where I can get them? I guess that NetBSD
> > 1.2's termcap files really suck for some reason;
> 
> Are you sure?  See below.
> 
> > all I know is that any
> > screen-oriented program looks really crappy (even man and more)...keeps
> > reversing/not reversing video.
> 
> This symptom with reverse is known to be seen when you specify
> anything other than "vt100" as your terminal.  Even though the ite
> driver supports only a subset of the real VT100 escape sequences, it
> works "reasonably well".
> 
> If you still have trouble with screen oriented programs, I think it's
> because either of or both the related environment variables (TERM and
> TERMCAP) are not properly set and passed to the applications.  To test
> the condition, you can do for example as follows:
> 
> 	sh -c 'echo $TERM'
> 
> NOTE that the argument is quoted with single quotation marks (').
> 
> If you are using /bin/sh, bash, or ksh as your login shell, you also
> should make sure that the variables are "export"ed so that they are
> visible within the child processes.
> 
> ken
>