Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!wb3ffv!ka3ovk!irscscm!mlake From: mlake@irscscm.UUCP (Marshall Lake) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Curses and the arrow keys Message-ID: <1990Aug27.172235.1682@irscscm.UUCP> Date: 27 Aug 90 17:22:35 GMT References: <1990Aug24.175453.4310@irscscm.UUCP> Reply-To: mlake@irscscm.UUCP (Marshall Lake) Organization: Internal Revenue Service, Washington, DC Lines: 27 In article meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes: >In article <1990Aug24.175453.4310@irscscm.UUCP> mlake@irscscm.UUCP >(Marshall Lake) writes: > >| [Question about using arrow keys with curses] >[Docs for keypad ()] > >Note that KEY_LEFT and friends will not fit in an ordinary character, >so make sure getch's result is stored in an int. > >If your curses is still based on the Berkeley curses, you have my >sympathies. This is one area where System V is better than BSD. Really? Sympathies?!?! That's all I can get using Berkeley curses?! :< >-- >Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 >Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 > >Do apple growers tell their kids money doesn't grow on bushes? -- Marshall Lake mlake@irscscm.UUCP ...!uunet!media!ka3ovk!irscscm!mlake