Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!mips!troi!peter
From: peter@dbaccess.com (Peter A. Castro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Curses, Aztec 5.0d possible bug, general stuff...
Message-ID: <887@troi.dbaccess.com>
Date: 5 Nov 90 22:55:40 GMT
References: <2633@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Organization: DB Access Inc., Santa Clara, CA
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in article <2633@ux.acs.umn.edu>, mndaily@ux.acs.umn.edu (Linda Seebach) says:
+ 
+ 
+ Yo.
+ I recently got an Amiga 3000, and with it Aztec 5.0d. (I think that's the
+ right version...) Does anyone know of explanations for the following weird
+ things?:
+   1] abs() seems to consistently return zero, but only when I have a lot of
+       amiga header files...

   I, too, have Aztec 5.0d, but I've got an A1000.  I don't experience this
   problem.  When you installed your libraries & things, doe you choose a
   default of 16 or 32 bits?  This can make a difference.  Try casting the
   values you pass to abs() to short and long and see if theres and difference.

+   2] stdlib.h conflicts with some of the other header files, which shouldn't
+       happen...

    This is interesting.  Could you list the other headers it conflicts with,
    and which definitions conflict?  I had a similar problem with the
    definition of ConsoleDevice.
+ 
+ On another line entirely: does anyone know of a port of curses/termcap to
+ the amiga, or do I have to do this myself? If I do do it, is anyone
+ interested in a copy? Does anyone even know what I'm talking about? ;-)

  Aztec does include a Screen library and calls (s.lib)... One thing that
  kind of annoyed me about Aztec 5.0d (I had 3.6a and upgraded) is that the
  new manual (which is very thick) refers to things that are only in the
  old manual.  Did you get 5.0d new, or upgraded from a previous version?

+ 
+ Oh, well. I guess I should get back to work ;-)
+ --SeebS--
+ Prophet in Exile
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