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From: drd@siia.mv.com (David Dick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Why does this fail? [repost]
Summary: curses function inch() seems not work on RS/6000
Keywords: curses
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.143411.21416@siia.mv.com>
Date: 21 Jun 91 14:34:11 GMT
Organization: Software Innovations, Inc.
Lines: 39

The program at the end of this posting produces the following
output when run on the three machines given:

RESULTS--

	ARIX (Motorola 68020):

	inch returned 'X' (0x58)

	IBM RS/6000:

	inch returned '' (0x0)

	IBM PS/2 (Intel something):

	inch returned 'X' (0x58)

PROGRAM--

    /* intst -- simple inch() test */

    #include <curses.h>
    #include <stdio.h>

    main()
    {
	int ch;

	initscr();
	move(10,10);
	addch('X');
	move(10,10);
	ch = inch();
	endwin();
	printf("inch returned '%c' (0x%0x)\n",ch,ch);
    }

David Dick
Software Innovations, Inc [the Software Moving Company (sm)]