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From: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au (avalon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: using getstr() & other curses input functions.
Message-ID: <avalon.664132917@coombs>
Date: 17 Jan 91 17:21:57 GMT
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G'day, can anyone give me a reason why when I call the
getstr(), wgetstr(), scanw(), wscanw() curses library
functions, the program just hangs and refuses to budge ?

wgetch() and getch() work fine - as long as i do a
nocrmode() call first (else they hang too).

a forced core dump of the program while it is hung shows
it to get stuck in the read() call.  Can anyone tell me
what I am doing wrong or how to get these functions to 
work properly ??

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thanks,
-avalon