Re: TosWin2 problems (colours wrong, and other troubles)

["Petr Stehlik" <stehlik@cas3.zlin.vutbr.cz>]

Hi Mario,

> I just obtained the patched TosWin2 from ftp.zlin.vutbr.cz, and now I
...
> However, I still notice that the colours under VT100 are wrong. When I
run
> ncurses, and use the c option for the colour test, the colours come out
> like this:
> 
> What is wrong? How can I fix this problem? Do I need to edit the termcap
> entry to fix the colours, and if so, what exactly must be changed?

You need my terminfo database. I bet I have written it at least twenty
times, to my WEB page and to various README.1ST files to both tw2 and
terminfo package. I set the TW2 so it's compatible with ANSI colors - that
means if you do printf("ANSI seq") it uses the right color. For correct
colors under ncurses I had to create remap table inside the terminfo
database.

You said you had got the TosWin2 from ftp.zlin... maybe you want to visit
my WWW software page where you can get my terminfo package and read some
bits about it?

> Also, I notice that, like with Miniwin (which I normally use), when
> editing text in Pico, when you enter characters at the beginning of a
> line, the rest of the line should move along (insert mode) but instead
the
> rest of the line does not move along (overwrite mode). But really, the
> line has moved along because if you use Control-L to update the display
> the line can be seen to have moved along. This happens with VT52 and
VT100
> emulation. This problem also happened in Miniwin. Where is this problem,
> and can I fix it? (Note the problem must not be in Pico since it works
> fine on the virtual consoles, stv52.)

That sounds like a bug in termcap/terminfo or Pico. Please note that Pico
does not work fine on stv52, at least not at my 108x40 resolution.

Petr
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