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From: samperi@djs.UUCP (Dominick Samperi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: curses?
Keywords: curses bugs
Message-ID: <186@djs.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 88 06:31:16 GMT
Organization: Village Software
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The Microport curses package seems to have a few problems. Screens don't
seem to get cleared when they are supposed to, and it seems to be
impossible to display a window with a non-blank charactar in the lower
right hand corner. For example, after calling box(win, '|', '-'),
followed by wrefresh(win), you get something like this:

	|-------------|
	|             |
	|             |
	|             |
	|             |
	|             |
	|-|-----------

Has anyone else experienced problems using curses? I'm using libcurses.a
from 2.3, and I have release 2.4, but didn't load it because I
didn't see how this would help. In particular, cmp shows that libcurses.a
is exactly the same in both release 2.3 and 2.4.

Another problem with curses is that it really makes executables large.
-- 
Dominick Samperi
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