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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: nethack 3.0 PL 3 on SCO 286 2.2.3
Summary: Link with -lcurses -lx
Message-ID: <1989Sep17.220149.19939@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 17 Sep 89 22:01:49 GMT
References: <YZ4QlhO00huW07Hksu@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc., Mundelein, IL
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In article <YZ4QlhO00huW07Hksu@andrew.cmu.edu> jl42+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jay Mathew Libove) writes:
>I said before:
>>On SCO Xenix 286 v2.2.3 (2.2.1 development system) Nethack 3.0 patchlevel 3
>>has only one evident problem: anything thrown or kicked leaves a trail
>>of messed up characters behind it on the screen, and the user needs
>>to hit ^R to clean things up.
>
>jtc@tessera suggested:
>
>>Recompile with terminfo and everything will work fine.
>
>*sigh* I'm the fool - I _did_ compile with terminfo the first time,
>but had forgotten about that fact....

Make sure you link with "-lcurses -lx".  We had this problem until we made
that single change.

Now all is well.

We're running 2.3.2.

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