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As quoted from <CLIPPER.91Mar21181432@det.csd.uwo.ca> by clipper@det.csd.uwo.ca (Khun Yee Fung):
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| Is it possible to do the following: I usually use screen on a VT100
| clone. One day of a week I will use a vc404. On that day, since I
| never exit from screen, I have to restart up screen, with all the
| VT100 escape sequences on the screen, terminate it, and then start a
| new screen. Is there a way to tell screen on the fly that the physical
| terminal has changed?
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Well, under that oh-so-evil terminfo/curses, you can do this by doing a
scrdump() to save the screen/window images to a file, endwin(), change $TERM,
initscr(), and scrload().  I think it may be possible to do this without the
save/restore as well (manuals are at work, I'm at home...).  (SVR3.2 or later
required, certainly SunOS4's terminfo/curses should do it).

I can't see why the terminfo needs to be changed on the fly, anyway.  So the
terminal can't blink --- terminfo/curses will either simulate it with another
attribute or ignore it.  Use the standard terminfo entry.  This is what I'm
doing in a screen-oid program I'm writing for SCO UNIX.  (Attribute-space
terminals can be handled by some extra code to test for magic_cookie_glitch
and not do attributes in that case; or, preferably, by replacing the terminal
in question with something sane.)

++Brandon
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