SCO Herc support Bug?

[Dave Hammond]

In article <221 at milhow1.UUCP> how at milhow1.UUCP (Mike Howard) writes:
>I was recently writing some graphics software for my SCO 386 2.2.3
>and ran into a `bug' in ioctl().  The sequence:
>  fd = open("/dev/mono", O_RDWR);
>  ioctl(fd, MCAMODE, (char *)0);
>  anthing
>
>leaves the screen screwed up.  Text is displayed, but end-of-line processing
>is perminently damaged.  Only a reboot seems to fix it.

I've experienced similar problems with /dev/console (mono or color).
Sending the `attributes off' ( \033[m ) sequence has helped in the past.

Dave Hammond
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