System V/AT 286 2.3 upgrade hints, trips and traps

[Mark E. Mallett]

In article <1514 at sugar.UUCP>, karl at sugar.UUCP (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
> 
> It doesn't seem to be a problem.  The same cannot be said for the ANSI
> driver itself.
>  [etc.  stuff about new ansi not working removed -mm]

When I upgraded to 2.3, almost NOTHING that used the ansi console worked
anymore.  vnews, jove, vi, you name it.  I finally hooked up another
computer to my serial port and spent many hours debugging the escape
sequences that came out of these utilities.  I found several problems, and
reported them publicly in the microport conference on BIX (Byte's online
service).  Microport acknowledged these fixes.  Rather, they came back and
said, "look what we found out", and then proceded to reiterate most of what
I'd said.

Unfortunately I've long forgotten what-all was exactly changed.  Much of it
was changing 0-offsets to 1-offsets in things like hpa and vpa.  At any
rate, here is the terminfo entry for ansi that resulted.  (to install it,
save it in a file, say 'foo', and do the command 'tic foo'.  First, you
should make sure you preserve your current definition in case there's a
problem).: 

ansi|ansi-24|ansi-s-bot|ansi-bot-s|ansi with bottom status line (for sysline),
	am, hs, mir, msgr, eslok, xon, cols#80, lines#24, wsl#80, 
	cbt=\E[Z, bel=^G, cr=\r, csr=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr, 
	clear=\E[H\E[J\E[3;2m, el=\E[K, ed=\E[J, hpa=\E[%i%p1%dG, 
	cup=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH, cud1=\n, home=\E[H, civis=\E[25;27m, 
	cub1=\b, cnorm=\E[23;27m, cuf1=\E[C, cuu1=\E[A, dch1=\E[P, 
	dl1=\E[M, dsl=\E7\E[?6l\E[25;1H\E[K\E8, smacs=\E[12m, 
	blink=\E[5;3;1m, bold=\E[1m, smir=\E[4h, invis=\E[8m, rev=\E[7m, 
	smso=\E[7m, smul=\E[4m, ech=\E[%p1%dX, rmacs=\E[10m, sgr0=\E[m, 
	rmir=\E[4l, rmso=\E[m, rmul=\E[m, fsl=\E8, is1=\E[=h, 
	is2=\E7\E[1;24r\E8\E[?6h\E[A\n, il1=\E[L, kbs=\b, kdch1=\E[P, 
	kdl1=\E[M, kcud1=\E[B, kf1=\EOP, kf10=\EOY, kf2=\EOQ, kf3=\EOR, 
	kf4=\EOS, kf5=\EOT, kf6=\EOU, kf7=\EOV, kf8=\EOW, kf9=\EOX, 
	khome=\E[H, kich1=\E[@, kil1=\E[L, kcub1=\E[D, knp=\E[V, 
	kpp=\E[U, kcuf1=\E[C, kcuu1=\E[A, dch=\E[%p1%dP, dl=\E[%p1%dM, 
	cud=\E[%p1%dB, ich=\E[%p1%d@, indn=\E[%p1%dS, il=\E[%p1%dL, 
	cub=\E[%p1%dD, cuf=\E[%p1%dC, rin=\E[%p1%dT, cuu=\E[%p1%dA, 
	pfkey=\E[%p1%d;%p2%l%dq%p2%s, pfx=\E[%p1%d;%p2%l%dq%p2%s, 
	rc=\E8, vpa=\E[%p1%dd, sc=\E7, ind=\ED, ht=\t, 
	tsl=\E7\E[?6l\E[25;%p1%dH\E[7;1;55m\E[K, 



> What's the final score?  I still have the MODEM hang double panic, and
> often.  The much-awaited 2.3 release was supposed to fix it.
> It has not, at all, but telling those of us having the problem that it 
> was going to be fixed in this (late) release certainly got everyone to 
> stop phoning, eh?  I'm kind of worn down at this point, on this matter.

It also got people, like me, to send in money for the upgrade.  In my case,
to sign up for the upgrade policy.  I was told on the phone, "oh that's
fixed in 2.3" and that it was probably a good idea to buy the $99 upgrade
if I was going to get 2.3, since they ship out "3 or 4" upgrades per year.
I wonder how true that is?

-mm-
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