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From: T.E.Dickey <dickey@clark.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: ncurses ???
Date: 18 Jun 1997 16:12:54 GMT
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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