Subject: Re: Upgraded to Sol2.5.1, terminal screwups in jove and pine. HELP?

From: [email-masked] (R. Stewart Ellis)
Date: 22 Dec 1996 13:15:26 GMT

[email-masked] (R. Stewart Ellis) writes:

Sorry to follow up my own post so soon, but I forgot two things:
1) to crosspost to the pine as well as solaris group.
2) I see the following problems when connecting to the ES3000 from a SPARC
running Sol 2.5 that has worked just fine with the same binary versions of
the apps running on the old 4/690.

 >We have just purchased and installed a new E3000 to replace our 4/690.  The
 >E3000 was cut over today.  The E3000 runs 2.5.1, while the 4/690 ran 2.4.  I
 >am having trouble with screen updates on both jove and two versions of
 >pine.  The basic behavior is that cursor movements near the beginning of a
 >line do not work right.

 >For example, pine periodically checkpoints.  When it does it inserts two
 >asterisks near the beginning of its status line.  When the checkpoint is
 >through it overwrites them with blanks.  Now it is leaving them on screen,
 >plus the blank, so the status line keeps moving farther to the right.

 >Also when I 'c'ompose a message, pine writes the header labels twice, e.g.

 >Subject:   Subject:

 >but the insert point is before the second one.

 >In jove, inserting at the beginning or the middle of a line screws up.  As I
 >am typing this, it seems that jove is not screwing up.  I guess it must just
 >be when jove is loaded as the alternate editor from pine.  Anyway, if I move
 >the cursor to the beginning of a line that has text on it, and us ^F to move
 >forward on the line, the text is moved forward, but also rewritten under the
 >cursor.

 >In any of these screwups the screen is rewritten correctly if I type ^L.

 >It does the same thing with two versions of tcsh.

 >Anybody got any clues?

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From: [email-masked] (R. Stewart Ellis)
Date: 22 Dec 1996 13:37:28 GMT

"Jan Birk" <[email-masked]> writes:

 >Hi,

 >I have had nearly the same problem with vt220. The solution was to copy the
 >old
 >terminfo to the the new.

 >Jan Birk

 >R. Stewart Ellis <[email-masked]> skrev i artiklen
 ><[email-masked]>...
[...]

A couple of people suggested terminfo description problems, so I decided to
inspect them.  After inspecting the terminfo entries for xterm on my home
machine, nova and novaold (using infocmp), and discovering that they were all
identical, I decided to kill the remote session in the xterm where I
normally run pine, and try a local jove in that window.  It screwed up in
exactly the same way.  I did a Ctrl-MidButton "Full Reset", and things are
cleared up.

The little bitty stuff can sure grind your ass.

Thanks for the suggestions.