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From: jhagen@talos.npri.com (Jarom Hagen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Curses on Ultrix 4.0 (RISC)
Keywords: curses
Message-ID: <2447@talos.npri.com>
Date: 18 Jun 91 21:15:50 GMT
Organization: NPRI, Alexandria VA
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I am trying to port software that runs on System V 3.2 to Ultrix 4.0.
I am having several problems with curses.

1.  No support for graphics characters.

2.  The routine getch() is *sometimes* returning different characters than 
    the ones I type in.  For example, the 9 may return $ when typed, the 1 
    may return ' ' when typed.  This only happens in the software ported
    from system V.  (It runs fine on three different System V machines)
    I pulled out the module that reads characters and made a little test 
    program that just initialized curses and called the read module.  
    That works fine.  I would like to know what is going on here!

3.  I sometimes get left in a funny state when the program exits.  For
    instance, echo may be turned off or the scrolling region may be set
    to only a few lines.

Here is how curses is setup:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <cursesX.h>

main()
{

	initscr();
	cbreak();
	echo();
	nl();
	intrflush(stdscr, 0); 
	keypad(stdscr, 1); 
	scrollok(stdscr, 1);
	clearok(stdscr, 1);
	noecho();


	terrd(&inputd, &inpwid);  /* terrd eventually calls getch() */

	endwin();

}

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Jarom
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