Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 13 Jul 1996 11:06:08 +1000 (EST) | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: 2.03 or 2.04 messed up console |
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On Thu, 11 Jul 1996, Geoffrey Hoff wrote: > pberger@linux01.gwdg.de wrote > > Hi, > > > > ist it just me who recognized that the console prompt doesn't > > work any more as when it should wrap to the next line? > > > > Example (dunno how to tell better..): > > > > box@somewher:/this/is/some/long/path$ ls -l <put some long existing > > path here till end of line> > > > > Normally it wraps but 2.03 (which I skipped) and 2.04 then show > > just some mess at the end of line.
I see no such problem with 2.0.4, bash 1.14.6, console type linux, gnu /etc/termcap 8.3 (?), linux termcap.c 2.0.8 (unfixed). However when I installed /etc/termcap 9.8.1 (from the ncurses project) I patched the linux termcap entry to use the old entry, I have a vague memory the new entry with ic/ich1 was causing wraparound problems.
> There seems to be another problem. Workbone used to have to have a nice > triangle symbol for play and that is now just a square. Is that a console > problem, a termcap problem, or a workbone problem. I don't know when this > happened but it has been the same in all 2.0 kernels and I dont remember when > I started seeing it in ghe 1.3 kernels.
Very early in the 1.3 kernels, it was a change to drivers/char/console.c to support different character sets, based on ESC<number>m control sequences. I long ago patched workbone to send ESC 11m when it starts, this is required to get the ROM characters below decimal 32 to display.
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