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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!europa.clark.net!news.clark.net!not-for-mail From: T.E.Dickey <dickey@clark.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: ncurses ??? Date: 18 Jun 1997 16:12:54 GMT Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5o91e6$201@clarknet.clark.net> References: <33A4F87D.167E@luna.net> <87rae2ney2.fsf@jekyll.piermont.com> <5o6dub$5n8@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk> <5o6j0e$9a0@innocence.interface-business.de> <5o75bi$46v@quack.ma.utexas.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 100-explorer.clark.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970527; sun4m SunOS 5.4] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6137 Jason Brazile <brazile@quack.ma.utexas.edu> wrote: : 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. is that a terminfo data problem, or the library? (I've tested with FreeBSD console, and have no display problems - however the console description itself was incorrect - because the console driver had errors and did not support the erase characters capability) -- Thomas E. Dickey dickey@clark.net http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey