Re: console -u option

["Jason M. Felice" <jasonf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 12:39:00PM +0200, Claudio Succa wrote:
> It seems that the test in cursesterm.c line 333
> 
>    if (tgetstr ("us", NULL) == NULL )
>       This->data->underscores = 1;
> 
> does no work correctly (Debian 2.1). I replaced it with:
> 
>    if ( This->data->is_xterm == 0 )
>       This->data->underscores = 1;
> 
> having good results both under consolle and under xwindows.
> 
> Can someone suggest me a correct solution?

This is not a good solution, since xterm may or may not display underline
characters.  There really isn't a better solution, as some termcap entries
lie about whether the terminal supports underlining.  This is why I've
re-added the -u option in CVS.

> 
> Claudio Succa
> --------------------------------------
> claudio@pertel.it
> www.pertel.it
> 

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