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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: brazile@quack.ma.utexas.edu (Jason Brazile) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: ncurses ??? Date: 17 Jun 1997 18:07:30 -0500 Organization: University of Texas, Austin Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5o75bi$46v@quack.ma.utexas.edu> References: <33A4F87D.167E@luna.net> <87rae2ney2.fsf@jekyll.piermont.com> <5o6dub$5n8@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk> <5o6j0e$9a0@innocence.interface-business.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: quack.ma.utexas.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6128 In article <5o6j0e$9a0@innocence.interface-business.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de> wrote: > >OTOH, ncurses IMHO suffers creeping featurism, and has been shooting >far beyond its goal to produce a SysV-curses lookalike. The last >detail i stumpled across when debugging Mutt's resize problem was that >it installs a SIGWINCH handler -- something SysV never does. And, in some cases it just doesn't work. Last time I tried linking programs like fireworks and worms against it, it left garbage all over the screen (qume qvt119, if it matters). The same programs worked fine with BSD curses. Jason