Re: joe and lynx on a short terminal
In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.94.960828130841.2895A-100000@dwarf.polaris.net>,
Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> wrote:
>I have a Data General "dumb" terminal hooked up to my linux box through a
>hard wired serial port. The terminal seems to provide 24 lines on the
>screen. Pine handles this fine, but joe and lynx behave as though there
>were one more line than there actually is. The behavior is that as you
>cursor down the screen (in joe), the previous line appears under the
>cursor as you move. Is there an environment variable that I can set to 24
>(or even smaller) that will make joe and lynx handle the screen correctly?
Probably a terminfo problem. Your terminal may have auto-wrap (auto-margins)
and terminfo says it doesn't, or vice verse. Also make sure that you do
have the right terminfo entry: if you set term to "linux" its terminfo
entry says it has 25 lines.
Mike.
--
Miquel van | Cistron Internet Services -- Alphen aan den Rijn.
Smoorenburg, | mailto:info@cistron.nl http://www.cistron.nl/
miquels@cistron.nl | Tel: +31-172-419445 (Voice) 430979 (Fax) 442580 (Data)
Reply to: