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From: daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: xenix curses
Keywords: xenix curses terminfo
Message-ID: <400@marob.MASA.COM>
Date: 26 Nov 88 22:01:10 GMT
References: <91@lgnp1.MASA.COM>
Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Organization: ESCC  New York City
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In article <91@lgnp1.MASA.COM> phile@lgnp1.MASA.COM (Phil Eschallier) writes:
>using xenix/286 2.2.3, i am trying to port over some curses based programs
>originally written on a at&t sys 5 rel 2 system.  i can't seem to get the
>terminfo style curses to work quite right.  for some reason, when running
>a program that uses the curses package, the it will not recognize a 'P'
>(uppercase) but it will take any other character from the keyboard.  the
>'P' comes across as a '^@' -- has anyone had this problem or know of a
>fix?? (note: i went back to 2.2.1 and observed the same behavior!).

The SCO Xenix getch() is just plain broken (try typing a lowercase 'd' to
your program, as well).  It can't be used reliably in any progam which needs
to read unstructured text (everything from entering filenames to editing text).

Dave Hammond
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