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From: sdussin@dgis.dtic.dla.mil (Steve Dussinger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Problems with CURSES on Vax11/780
Keywords: Vax unix curses programming c
Message-ID: <678@dgis.dtic.dla.mil>
Date: 29 Nov 89 21:57:34 GMT
Organization: Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), Alexandria VA
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I am having some difficulty using CURSES on a VAX 11/780, and was
wondering if someone out there could give me some help.

The problem is, I have created a window (usnig newwin), that is
10 rows by 60 columns on a Vt100.  Into this window I attempt
to print a string of _exactly_ 600 characters, using:

	wprintw(window,"%s",buffer);

where window is of type WINDOW *, and buffer is of type char *.

When I attempt to print this 600-char string, I get a Segmentation
Violation.

The strange thing about this is, if I try to print the buffer 
above, one char at a time, using:

	wprintw(window,"%c",*buffer++);

The program works fine.

The other interesting thing is, when I initially built the program,
I used a smaller window.  In the smaller version printing the string
all at once worked fine, but when I increased the size of the window
and buffer, it all fell apart.

Does anyone out there have any idea what I'm doing wrong?? I can't
find anything wrong with the code, all my pointers are correct, and
the string I'm tryin to print is null-terminated and exactly 600
chars.  I'm starting to lose my mind, here. Somebody please help....


				Thanx in advance,

				   Steve Dussinger

sdussin@dgis.dtic.dla.mil
sdussin@dev.dtic.dla.mil