4.2 and sysline

Guy Harris guy at sun.uucp
Sun Oct 27 10:00:52 AEST 1985


> A VT100 does not really have a status line.  However, it can be
> faked; the termcap entries that do this are usually "vt100-s"
> and "vt100-s-bot".  Try setting $TERM to one of those.

Unfortunately, it's not a perfect fake.  Some programs get very confused
when you set TERM to "vt100-s" or "vt100-s-bot" and run "sysline" in the
background.

	Guy Harris



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