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From: pietrzak@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (John Pietrzak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Using curses and termcap
Summary: I can't seem to get one to use the other
Keywords: curses termcap gcc atari
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Date: 23 Mar 91 17:45:30 GMT
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   I've recently been attempting to move a program which uses curses
to my atari.  I set up the GCC package from atari.archive, and (amazingly)
everything went smoothly from there.  The only problem I've
encountered so far is apparently with getting curses to read from
the termcap information.  I've tried setting a TERMCAP environment
variable, putting the termcap file in a /etc folder, putting it in
the current directory, etc., but I still can't seem to get it (my 
tabs aren't working properly).  Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?  

   (I'm using the termcap file found with the curses distribution,
and setting a variable TERM=atari.  Also, I'm running under msh of
Mark Williams C fame.)

Thanks

John Pietrzak
pietrzak@ces.cwru.edu