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From: dennis@quincy.UUCP (Dennis W. Koncelik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: J, K and L combo boards (was: UNIX PC Problems)
Message-ID: <28@quincy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Jul-87 20:00:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: quincy.28
Posted: Wed Jul 29 20:00:26 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Aug-87 07:49:24 EDT
References: <31200002@ccvaxa| <359@genesis.UUCP> <917@woton.UUCP>
Organization: American LP Systems, Inc., Islandia, NY
Lines: 46
Summary: AT&T Software curses fix for different expansion board revisions

| In article <917@woton.UUCP|, riddle@woton.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle ) writes:
| 
| Instead, as I mentioned in a posting last week, the crash happens for us only
| on machines with a revision J, K or L expansion board.  (We suspect, but have
| 
| In response to my earlier posting on the subject, one person wrote to me
| saying that he had found a software solution:
| 
| || From: im4u!ut-sally!ihnp4!ihjhh!jhh
| || To: im4u!woton!riddle
| || Subject: #$*^%$%*&^)(*& Combo Cards
| || 
| || I too have a combo card, revision J or greater, which has been causing me
| || much grief since I upgraded to 3.5.  Heck, I even work for AT&T and
| || couldn't get a solution through official channels.  The Hotline told me to
| || try to, "Find an old rev, these new ones have a problem that we can't
| 
| --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
| --- Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of Shriners Burns Institute.
| --- riddle@woton.UUCP  {ihnp4,harvard,seismo}!ut-sally!im4u!woton!riddle

I'm not sure if this would be the exact solution to your problem(s)
but it might be useful for you to obtain a copy of a Maintenance
Release of the Curses Package anyhow.

If you are experiencing a problem in an application package that
uses curses you may have a problem with an older Release of the
Programmer's Package under Version 3.5.  Seems that AT&T accidently
turned on a parity bit on the port when curses was first called
with an initscr().

The problem occured to us when we started to go over to 3.5 and
we noticed it only on certain combo cards (revision J was one
I remember).  After working with AT&T they found a fault in their
software and the following fix was issued (available only by request
from the AT&T Hotline):

		Curses Terminfo Programmers Package
		Maintenance Release 3.0.1L

Ask for it by name.
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