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From: jim@applix.UUCP (Jim Morton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: SCO Herc support Bug?
Summary: yup, it's a bug
Keywords: MCAMODE, ioctl(), Hercules graphics
Message-ID: <811@applix.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 88 15:22:26 GMT
References: <221@milhow1.UUCP>
Organization: APPLiX Inc., Westboro MA
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In article <221@milhow1.UUCP>, how@milhow1.UUCP (Mike Howard) writes:
| I was recently writing some graphics software for my SCO 386 2.2.3
| and ran into a `bug' in ioctl().  The sequence:
|   fd = open("/dev/mono", O_RDWR);
|   ioctl(fd, MCAMODE, (char *)0);
|   anthing
| 
| leaves the screen screwed up.  Text is displayed, but end-of-line processing
| is perminently damaged.  Only a reboot seems to fix it.
| The same thing happens when I type `stty MCAMODE