Well do I ever feel like a fool! I found the problem. I can't tell the difference between a lower case L (l) and a numeric one (1). They look almost identical in the font chosen by the web page from which I obtained the escape sequences for "altscreen" and "defscreen" (http://rtfm.etla.org/xterm/ctlseq.html) Near the middle of this page we see the codes for "DEC Private Mode Reset" (DECRST), all of which begin with
CSI ? Pm l That's a lower-case "L" at the end there, not a 1. Can you tell? I couldn't. I should have been suspicious about a numeric parameter being terminated by the numeral one, and I was, but not suspicious enough to try a lower-case "L". Anyway, when I specify the options as -altscreen '28x132=\E[?40h\E[?3h' -defscreen '28x80=\E[?3l\E[?40l' instead of -altscreen '28x132=\E[?40h\E[?3h' -defscreen '28x80=\E[?31\E[?401' then this problem goes away. Can you tell the difference? It may depend greatly on which font your e-mail system or web browser uses. I'll tell you one thing: the computer can sure tell the difference! :-( Unfortunately, this does *NOT* fix bug 507483. I was hoping that it would, but it does not. You may close this bug report as a user error, but leave bug 507483 open, please. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
