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From: john@comp.lancs.ac.uk (John R. Nicol)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: CURSES (yet another nasty!!)
Message-ID: <40@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 10:22:02 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 19 10:22:02 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Mar-86 04:27:12 EST
Reply-To: john@comp.lancs.ac.uk (John R. Nicol)
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.
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I have been experiencing nasty problems with CURSES ("who hasn't?", I hear
you say!).

The main problem is that when one CURSES process invokes another process
which also uses CURSES, strange things happen to the display (-- I think
because the first process puts the tty in a funny state). E.g. On an adm-11
terminal, tabs seem to be changed to spaces when displayed by the new process,
positions of things on the screen get screwed up; on a SUN w/s, I get reverse
video on parts of the screen etc etc.

I thought I could beat the problem by forcing any new CURSES processes to
set the tty state back to the default -- alas, this doesn't seem to work
either.....


Anyone got any useful suggestions on this CURSES problem?

				many thanks in advance,

					John R. Nicol

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