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From: gls@odyssey.att.COM (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: example of curses doesn't work
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.194650.9193@cbnewsh.att.com>
Date: 22 Feb 91 19:46:50 GMT
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In <16200010@hpucph.dnk.hp.com>, john@hpucph.dnk.hp.com writes:
> I tried to compile and run the program on 7.0. 
> It runs as expected on both 300 and 800 hardware.
> I compiled and linked like this cc curses.c -lcurses.

I am running under "A.B7.00" -- maybe the "B" stands for Beta Release?
The computer system is a 9000/855.

My application programs work fine when I use a home-grown version of
wprintw().  All it does is sprintf into a buffer and then waddstr()
the contents to the window.

The only other possibility that occurs to me is that, since we use
C++ heavily, libcurses.a is somehow specially formulated for C++
and does not always understand C calling sequences.

Can anybody else get the test program to work?

-:-
	She was now working with fourteen pairs at once, and Alice couldn't
	help looking at her in great astonishment.  "How _can_ she knit with so
	many?" the puzzled child thought to herself.  "She gets more and more
	like a porcupine every minute!"

	"Can you row?" the Sheep asked, handing her a pair of knitting
	needles as she spoke.

				--L. Carroll, _Through the Looking-Glass_
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
gls@odyssey.att.COM


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