curses/termcap vs. autowrap on DEC terminals

[Peter da Silva]

In article <853 at per2.UUCP>, dag at per2.UUCP (Daniel A. Glasser) writes:
> the TERMCAP entry for the terminal has auto margins false and that the
> terminal itself has autowrap turned off (this should actually not
> be required).

This is in fact required... suppose 'vi' is displaying a long line. It gets to
column 80 and wants to put the next character at column 1 on the next line. If
autowrap is on, it's there. If autowrap is off, it has to send a CR and an LF.

If you tell vi the terminal has no autowrap when it in fact does, it will put
a blank line in the middle of any line longer than 80 characters.
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