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From: ron@woan (Ronald S. Woan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Elm 2.2 Under AIX 3.1
Keywords: Termcap
Message-ID: <4051@awdprime.UUCP>
Date: 29 Oct 90 14:57:37 GMT
References: <115@edi386.UUCP>
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In article <115@edi386.UUCP>, eddjp@edi386.UUCP ( Dewey Paciaffi ) writes:
Dewey> Has anyone been able to get Elm 2.2 to handle the screen
Dewey> properly under AIX 3.1 ? Some of the termcap functions seem to
Dewey> be dummied up, and when I start Elm, it doesn't have any cursor
Dewey> positioning capability.

Shouldn't you be at 2.3 PL8? Anyway, the problem that I encountered
during porting was that libtermcap.a (-ltermcap in src/Makefile) was
linked in rather than libcurses.a. Substituting -lcurses for -ltercap
(not in addition) fixed everything...

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