Thanks for the quick answers!! About the wrap problem, the definitive solution is
Guy Maor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 6 May 1996 10:40: >ncurses-1.9.9e-1 fixes this. But... Rob Browning ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 6 May 1996 11:44: >Unfortunately the new version of ncurses that fixes this has not made >it to the public ftp sites. Meanwhile, Austin Donnelly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 6 May 1996 15:27: >Alternatively, type: > tput smam which works! In fact I should have found it myself, but I didn't have the energy to search hard enough. I just did a search for "wrap" in terminfo(5)... Of course I collected the output and put it in my precmd() in zsh, so that I don't have to type it everytime I enter in an ncurses application. I love you guys! :-) About the erasing problem, the temporary solution for me, again from Austin, is to use stty erase ^H. I had forgotten about it, it's such a long time I don't use stty anymore. However, this isn't the real fix, since in another machine running .99R6 I have no such setting (stty reports ^? for erase) and things work fine. All of you said to use delete instead of backspace. However this doesn't work at all, it produces ESC[3~... Carlos