Subject: Re: WYSE 50 terminals

From: [email-masked] (Christer Lindh)
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 93 07:14:00 +0100

>    We use WYSE85s without any problem...
> 
Unfortunately, the ancient Wyse50 use up one character on the screen
whenever an attribute is changed. This is the dreaded "magic cookie"
you can read about in terminfo/curses manuals.

There's not much to do except rewrite your termcap/terminfo not to use
reverse or underline attributes. You can however use protected mode,
it can be represented as "dim" (selectable trough Setup I think).

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