Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!hplabs!hpda!hpcuhb!hp-sde!hpfcdc!markm From: markm@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Mark McDowell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: terminfo problems (Was: 300/800 Incompatibilities) Message-ID: <5570065@hpfcdc.HP.COM> Date: 12 Sep 88 14:30:05 GMT References: <1626@sjuvax.UUCP> Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co. Lines: 28 Concerning problem 2, quoting from the Update_info document... Special note ------------ Certain terminal characteristics are required to support the new terminal window features and the debuggers attempt to determine at runtime if these are available. If they are not, the default is a line-oriented mode. However, for some terminals, the debuggers will incorrectly attempt to use terminal windows even though all of the necessary capabilities are not available. If you notice strange screen behavior, you can force line-oriented debugging with one of the following functions or aliases: If your command interpreter is "sh": cdb() { env TERM= /bin/cdb $*; } If it is "csh": alias cdb 'env TERM= /bin/cdb' Or for "ksh": alias cdb='TERM= /bin/cdb' The same methods can be used for fdb and pdb, also. This problem has been fixed in the next release. Mark McDowell