Alternate character modes on magic_cookie_glitch terminals (long)

Peter da Silva peter at ficc.ferranti.com
Thu Mar 7 08:51:33 AEST 1991


Some televideo-braindamage style terminals allow you to set the attribute
character width to 0, allowing you to write a character in the magic cookie
cell. So the magic cookies don't show up on the screen but still do weird
stuff like set the rest of the screen to the attribute.

Try turning "ms" off and "xs" on. In terminfo, that means you must disable
"move_standout_mode" and enable "ceol_standout_glitch".
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