BSD 4.3 Curses and scrolling

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <573 at io.UUCP> lee (Lee Kamentsky) writes:
>As far as I can tell, my copy of the "curses" library (BSD 4.3
>distributed by Sun) doesn't take advantage of the insert or
>delete line features of terminals.  It seems to just repaint when
>it could do some intelligent scrolling.

Check that the al, dl, AL, DL capabilities are present in your
/etc/termcap.  We had them disabled on our systems for a while
because someone was annoyed at the visual appearance, but they've
been reinstated recently.