In article <1992Nov1.004828.6310@afterlife.ncsc.mil> jepstei@afterlife.ncsc.mil (John Epstein) writes:
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>QUESTION: Besides fs and math emulation, was termcap
>supposed to affected by 0.98.2 or 0.98.3
>I assume null-pointer would generate an error.

Arggh.  Yes, the kernel did change some terminal info in 0.98.3 - namely
the standard TERM variable.  Instead of using the "con80x25" etc names
(which resulted in terrible /etc/termcap files), 0.98.3 initializes TERM
to be simply "console".  The terminal size is available from the termios
size structure, and is no longer encoded into the terminal type name. 

So if you seem to have problems with termcap, make sure you have an
entry for "console" which essentially looks like vt100 or vt220.  That
should be the default (well, it was in *my* termcap even before I did
the changes to 0.98.3), but it may not be true of all systems. 

                Linus