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From: seindal@skinfaxe.diku.dk (Rene' Seindal)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: NN screws up screen if terminfo entry has flash capability
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Date: 13 Jul 89 02:29:42 GMT
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pim@ctisbv.UUCP (Pim Zandbergen) writes:

> I haven't yet really dug into the sources, but it looks like the
> flash string is sent to the screen literally, instead of using
> the flash() function in curses(3X).

When you dig into the sources you will see that nn does not use curses.  There
are just too many buggy curses versions out there, so you can't rely on it, if
you want to write portable programs.

Sorry.

Rene' Seindal (seindal@diku.dk).