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From: plocher@uport.UUCP (John Plocher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: tgetstr stomps memory in SV/AT 2.4
Message-ID: <314@uport.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 89 15:44:02 GMT
References: <2525@splut.UUCP>
Reply-To: plocher@uport.UUCP (John Plocher)
Organization: Microport Systems, San Jose, CA
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In article <2525@splut.UUCP> Jay Maynard writes:
>
>Is this really a termcap/curses bug? Or is it more esoteric? I'm pretty
>sure that it's 2.3- or 2.4-specific, since I'm running rn compiled last
>April, and it runs fine (except for the article number problem).

We broke that one.  You can call texch support and get a version which declares
tgetstr to be a char* instead of char** (oops).  Or you can declare it "wrong"
in your program and live with it.  You can also grab it out of the 2.3 curses
library and replace the broken one in 2.4.

   John Plocher