Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!uport!jmsully
From: jmsully@uport.UUCP (John M. Sully)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: curses?
Keywords: curses bugs
Message-ID: <265@uport.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 88 20:43:01 GMT
References: <186@djs.UUCP>
Reply-To: jmsully@uport.UUCP (John M. Sully)
Organization: Microport Systems, Scotts Valley, CA
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In article <186@djs.UUCP> samperi@djs.UUCP (Dominick Samperi) writes:
|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:
|
|	|-------------|
|	|             |
|	|             |
|	|             |
|	|             |
|	|             |
|	|-|-----------
|

I only have an answer to the box problem, but it is fairly simple.  This is
not a problem with curses, rather it is a bug in the "rep" capability of the
console driver.  Removing "rep" from the console terminfo definition will
fix this problem.

John M. Sully