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From: wolfer@ihuxy.ATT.COM (Wolfson)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: mpss on SYS V ???
Summary: Compiling mpss
Message-ID: <2601@ihuxy.ATT.COM>
Date: 2 Aug 88 18:02:24 GMT
References: <2843@tekred.TEK.COM> <301@pcsbst.UUCP> <302@pcsbst.UUCP> <850@mtuxj.att.com>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <850@mtuxj.att.com>, tek1@mtuxj.att.com (Thomas E. Kenny) writes:
> I haven't even gotten mpss to compile on Sys V! Could somebody and there 
> appear to be a few of you out there that have gotten that far post the fixes?
> Thanks!


Compiling is only half the battle. The reason I, for one, have not posted the 
"fixes" to get it to compile, is that, while the thing runs, I can't get control
of the keyboard. The problem is with the way the program uses curses.

It look from the code that it is using its own version of raw() and noraw()
to turn off echoing of the characters. This might be part of the problem.
I replaced the functions with library routines which I thought would do the
the same thing, ( cbreak() noecho() nonl() etc). but still no good.

Tomorrow I will be turning the program source over to our resident
"C"/unix guru. 

If no one else posts any fixes, and the program is working reasonably
well, I'll post the fixes he comes up with..

Paul Wolfson
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