Serious (ha-ha) bug in 4.9-RELEASE

[Daniel Eischen]

On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Jamie Bowden wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> 
> > > Very critical indeed...  And with such a huge userbase that it took
> > > six months before anybody noticed this problem.  :-)
> 
> > No, we noticed it here at work where we use Sun Solaris boxes as our
> > development systems.  I didn't know what the problem was until now.  It
> > is very very annoying to have man, more, less, etc, screw up your
> > display when using them while remotely logged in to our FreeBSD boxes.
> > The symptoms are that everything gets highlighted and underlined and it
> > stays that way forcing you to close the xterm and open another.  If we
> > set TERM to xterm-r6 or xterm-r5, then everything seems to work OK.
> 
> I brought this same problem up a while back, as it did the same thing to
> my xterm on my Irix boxes as well.  It's not just FreeBSD, current Redhat
> releases do the same thing.

Is there a termcap fix that allows both color xterm and
doesn't screw up older xterm implementations?

-- 
Dan Eischen