ak@nyangau.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
> I have repeated the test using a real color xterm with the same result.
> Therefore it looks more likely to be a AIX curses issue than a bug in
> both PuTTY and real xterm.

Which color xterm was that?

PuTTY does differ from xterm - that's why there's a separate terminfo for it.
The ich/dch problem that you described would happen with rxvt (that's a
known bug in rxvt).

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