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From: srt@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Scott Turner)
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Subject: Re: Re^3: Hotel lacking display.c
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Date: 15 Jul 89 18:13:40 GMT
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In article <1614@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
[Possible reason why Hotel may overwrite the board...]
>Me too, on a 4.2BSD system.  There are a lot of places where
>"move(boardsize+5,0)" is followed by  "clear-to-end-of-screen" and then
>"printw" ... The printw comes out at the top of the screen.  Are you
>allowed to assume that clear to EOS doesn't move the current x,y?

Hmm.  Interesting question.  I've always assumed that.  (Obviously :-)
If that's the problem, I suppose that you can just insert "move..."
again after the clear-to-end-of-screen.  If you do that and it works,
please send me the diffs.

 
    Scott R. Turner
    UCLA Computer Science     "Does school ever end?"
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