OOPS and Foxbase
Derek E. Terveer
det at hawkmoon.MN.ORG
Mon Aug 22 08:35:57 AEST 1988
In article <6808 at well.UUCP>, dave at well.UUCP (Dave Hughes) writes:
> [First problem]
> Secondly - if modem-callers who do NOT have terminal emulation
> programs run it - plain tty mode - the whole session is
> punctuated by OOPS's (coming from curses, I guess), and is
> totally unsatisfactory.
I've run into the exact same problem that you have seen when entering new
terminals into the /etc/termcap file.
Apparently, the OOPS is an exclaimation of suprise by curses when it encounters
things in the termcap file it doesn't understand. This doesn't seem to be a
documented feature. I have *not* seen this problem in terminfo files.
I have seen the OOPS result in two different cases:
1. Any kind of capatilized capabilities in the termcap entry, such as
"AL", etc. Just delete all capatilized capabilities. These are
mostly "multiple commands" anyway, such as >1 line delete, etc.,
which vi doesn't seem to use anyway! (arg! (:-()
2. Any time there are the following type of push strings in the
capability, for example, %p1 or %p2. I simply deleted these strings
with "1,$s/%p[12]//g" in vi. The removal of these substrings from
the capabilities removed the obnoxious OOPS from the screen and
didn't seem to affect the curses capability.
Good luck, hope this helps!
derek
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