GNU Emacs and Microport

[Michael Grenier]

I found out something that might help those of you trying to use
the curses library under DosMerge which I bumped into when building
GNU emacs.

The console driver is different between the DosMerge kernel and the
Normal UNIX kernel. The terminfo entry AT386 reflects the non-DosMerge
kernel and can have real problems with the DosMerge console driver.

In particular:
   The vertical position absolute 'vpa' terminfo field is broke in
the DosMerge kernel. It positions the cursor one line too low and will
never put the cursor on the top line of the screen. 

   The 'rep' repeat terminfo entry is not supported under DosMerge.

In both cases, just remove the fields from the terminfo entry
for AT386.

     -Mike Grenier
    mike at cimcor.mn.org