Wyse 50+ as a 3b1 terminal

[David T. Sandberg]

In article <1989Nov28.002800.12838 at hybrid.UUCP> mdapoz at hybrid.UUCP (Mark Dapoz) writes:
>I use a Wyse 50+ as a terminal on my 3B1 and I run it at 19.2K baud (anyone
>know how to get 38.4K baud out of the serial ports?).

This statement brings up an unrelated question on my part.  From the
above, it appears that at least one other person has used a Wyse 50+
as a terminal on the Unix PC.  Has anyone else encountered problems
with curses-using software not handling the magic cookie glitch
properly (that is, not accounting for space-taking attribute bytes
when using reverse video, etc)?  Basically every highlighted block
gets shifted over one to the right.  Blech.

I have had no success in getting either Elm 2.2 (with the highlighted
bar option set) or several of my own curses applications to behave on
the Wyse 50 when connected to my 3b1, although they all work flawlessly
on Wyse 50s connected to other systems.  Yes, I've played with the
terminfo definitions to my heart's content, and doublechecked them time
and time again against those of the other systems where the same code
works fine with these terminals.  Yes, I've left space on the sides of
the blocks for curses to plunk the attribute bytes into.  My current
suspicion is that the Unix PC curses (this is 3.51 with Fixdisk #1, by
the way) simply ignores the setting of xmc.

Anyone else have any experience with this, positive or negative?  If
I'm suffering from brain damage, I'd certainly like to know now, while
there's still time for a lobotomy.  I can reconstruct a minimal test
program, if needed.

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David Sandberg             dts at quad.uucp or ..uunet!rosevax!sialis!quad!dts