Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ulowell!apollo!tyager
From: tyager@apollo.COM (Tom Yager)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: curses efficiency
Keywords: curses,refresh()
Message-ID: <4124c24c.6bad@apollo.COM>
Date: 29 Jan 89 00:36:00 GMT
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Reply-To: tyager@apollo.COM (Tom Yager)
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Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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[ some stuff about curses hopping between column 1 and the position
  of each character written ]

I've seen this, too. There are a couple of ways to fix it:

   1. Compile against termcap curses. I think it does not show the
      problem, but I'm not entirely sure. 

   2. Start your output on other than column 1. That sounds like a
      silly solution, but the glitch only seems to occur when there
      is a character at the far left of the line. In an application
      I wrote, I indented all the input lines three spaces and the
      problem went away.

Good luck.
(ty)

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