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From: acheng@uiucdcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Help! Problems with curses!
Message-ID: <13700078@uiucdcs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 11:00:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  5 11:00:00 1984
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<</* Written 12:50 am  Nov  4, 1984 by emr@hal in uiucdcs:net.unix-wizar */
<</* ---------- "Help! Problems with curses!" ---------- */
<<
<<   I'm having a problem with curses and I hope someone out there
<<can help me.  It would seem that when I create too many windows
<<I get a segmentation fault in wrefresh.  However in the program
<<in question I have only created 5 windows when the problem occures.
<<The strange part is that a test program I wrote runs flawlessly on
<<another machine (a 68k based machine) but bombs miserably on our
<<VAX 750.  Both are running 4.2 BSD.  I have included a copy of the
<<test program below.  When I run it I get a sementation fault after
<<"Window #12".

It ran all okay with our 780 and 750 (both on 4.2BSD).  Not a single problem.
I suggest you to try some debugger, like adb or dbx, to find
where it died.
			Albert Cheng
			acheng%uiuc@csnet-relay.ARPA
			{ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!acheng