Re: Wrong ACS_HLINE in ncurses-program on Televideo tvi 990

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008, address@hidden wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a problem with horizontal Lines in a ncurses program by using
> it on a Televideo Model 990,
> under using it on my PC with Putty I've got no problems.
> The error is only showing under Solaris, under Suse Linux it works
> fine.
>
> Here's my configuration:
> - SunOS 5.6 Generic_105181-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1
> - SunOS 5.9 Generic_112233-02 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-e2
> - Suse Linux 2.2.16 (ohne Fehler)
> - NCurses Version 5.6
>
> In my program I show several horizontal lines, but on the Televideo
> they shown as a underscore not as a line in the middle. But the last
> character of the line is then a the right middle line character.

Perhaps the Televideo isn't emulating vt100 (or whatever you've got $TERM
set to).  I don't see a terminfo for tvi990 for instance, so I'm assuming
you're using something like vt100, xterm, etc.

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