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From: leo@ehviea.ine.philips.nl (Leo de Wit)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Usage of wscanw() from curses library
Keywords: curses
Message-ID: <828@ehviea.ine.philips.nl>
Date: 17 Jul 90 06:54:05 GMT
References: <278@asihub.AUTOSYS.COM>
Reply-To: leo@ehviea.UUCP (Leo de Wit)
Organization: Philips I&E Eindhoven
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In article <278@asihub.AUTOSYS.COM> dan@asihub.AUTOSYS.COM (Dan O'Neill) writes:
|Under Ultrix 4.0 on a DS5000 I am having trouble with the function
|wscanw() in the curses library.
|
|Here is test program that I wrote to demonstrate the problem.
|
|#include <stdio.h>
|#include <curses.h>
|#include <signal.h>
|
|main()
|{
|    char filename[20];
|
|    initscr();
|    wmove(stdscr, 18, 1);
|    wrefresh(stdscr);
|
|    wscanw(stdscr, "%s", filename);
|    endwin();
|
|    printf("filename: %s\n", filename);
|}
|
|This was compiled with the command:
|
|    cc -g -o scan scan.c -lcurses -ltermlib
|
|When the program is run, the cursor is positioned correctly and it
|waits for input.  After entering some text and pressing return, I
|expected the program to end.  It does not.  It seems to hang up and I
|have to kill the process from another window.  Interrupts are ignored
|as well.
|
|I ran the program in the debugger and it never returns from wscanw().

If you entered a >20 character filename, I wouldn't be that surprised
if something went wrong ...

    Leo.