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From: peter@cassandra.uucp (Peter Blemel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: curses problem under AIX 3.1 (3001 and 3002)
Summary: _y is null
Keywords: AIX, curses
Message-ID: <1991Jan07.115023.10052@cassandra.uucp>
Date: 7 Jan 91 11:50:23 GMT
Reply-To: cassandra!peter@yenta.alb.nm.us (Peter Blemel)
Organization: Management Sciences, Inc.
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   Unfortunately I do not know if there is some fixed standard for curses,
but RT AIX, SunOS, BSD 4.3, and most other OS's that I have used initialize 
stdscr->_y to be a batch of blanks (after appropriate setup calls). The
curses library for AIX 3.1 leaves this pointer nil, which is a major
source of heartburn for most packages that I need to port. inch() will
crash the program because of this, as does overwrite(). Is there some
standard auxiliary call that needs to be made (that is a freebie on these
other systems) ?

Thanks,
Peter
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