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From: me@anywhere.EBay.Sun.COM (Wayne Thompson - IR Workstation Support SE)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: bug in curses.mus -- {,w}getstr
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Date: 24 Apr 91 13:07:59 GMT
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I am writing a hypertext engine in curseperl, but don't use w*getstr.
But I try using getcap and it always comes up empty.
4.003 SunOS4.1.1 BSD curses lib. Any thoughts?

Wayne

In article <1991Apr22.214135.14651@robobar.co.uk> you write:
|> Doesn't anyone use curseperl?  The mus munged call to getstr
|> becomes something like retval = getstr(&str) which really
|> wants to be getstr(str).  Similarly for wgetstr().
|> 
|> I don't know any mus, so I hacked the C output (yuk).  More elegant fixes
|> welcome :-)
|> 
|> [ Also, I don't know how this might affect anyone else, but I had to
|>   change the parameter to ?addch to be unsigned char, because I
|>   hacked my copy of BSD curses to be 8 bit clean.  It's probably
|>   no use to anyone else now though, because the tty handling became
|>   slightly System V dependent in the process (arrrrrggghhh :-) ]
|> -- 
|> Ronald Khoo <ronald@robobar.co.uk> +44 81 991 1142 (O) +44 71 229 7741 (H)