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

[Jo Even Skarstein <joska@nuts.edu>]

On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Mario Becroft wrote:

> I just obtained the patched TosWin2 from ftp.zlin.vutbr.cz, and now I
[...]
> 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?

Have you downloaded and installed Petr's termcap-database?

> 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

I've experienced this myself, both with pico and pine. It's probably a
bug in the vt-emulator, AFAIK both Toswin and Miniwin is written by
Eric Smith, and the vt-emulator in TosWin2 is based heavily on the
Toswin-sources.


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