Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!gapos!azh01!steve From: steve@gapos.bt.co.uk (Steve Rooke) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: HELP with vmh problem, please Summary: vmh clears screen just after filling it Keywords: mh vmh curses Message-ID: Date: 25 Apr 91 09:46:29 GMT Sender: usenet@gapos.bt.co.uk (Usenet login) Organization: British Telecom Applied Systems. Lines: 35 I have just started to get MH 6.7.1 running under Uniplus+ SVR2 on our machines here but have hit a problem with vmh. When I run vmh -vmhproc msh the screen splits normally, the top window shows a scan of msgbox and I get the (vmh) prompt in the bottom window okay. If I scan then the bottom screen fills up but then immediately clears and I am left with a blank bottom window apart from the (top: bottom:) prompt. A refresh will not repaint the missing text and I can get the next screen but all I see is a quick flash of the bottom line of text before it disappears. I have started to look in vmh.c and think that the problem is somewhere in the region of linsert (perhaps). It looks like the screen is written by part of the code then a linked list of line structures is read back out of the curses window, only in my case this seems to read blank strings. I see the correct display for a quick flash at the time that the first wrefresh is called in WINloop but, after the lbottom/waddstr bit is run, the next wrefresh clears the window. Has anyone else had this problem and can help me please. If it is covered in FAQ then please excuse this posting as I have only just started to read the group and have not seen one yet (if you have a copy, please send it to me or tell me where I can get a copy, see my other posting). version: MH 6.7.1 #3[UCI] (azh01) of Tue Apr 23 11:54:41 BST 1991 options: [SYS5] [MORE='"/usr/bin/more"'] [NDIR] [SYSNDIR] [UK] [MHE] [SENDMTS] [SPRINTFTYPE=int] SYSNDIR = local hack for Thanks for your time Steve -- Steve Rooke steve@gapos.bt.co.uk (...mcsun!ukc!gapos!steve) UK + 394 693595 BT, CS/OPSE, Area 106, Anzani House, | Live to Hack - Trinity Ave, FELIXSTOWE, Suffolk, UK | Hack to Live. #include | The_Caged_Lion - DoD #0287