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From: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Question re: curses in SCO Xenix?
Message-ID: <72@estinc.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 89 01:34:20 GMT
References: <574@sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU> <587@marob.MASA.COM>
Reply-To: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
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Organization: Enhanced Software Technologies, Inc.
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In article <587@marob.MASA.COM> daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) writes:
>							BTW, you
>may well experience problems using SCO's getch() call--it has a nasty
>habit of returning null when the 'D' (or is it 'd'?)  and 'P' keys are
>pressed.

Zingo!  So it isn't just my imagination or a bug in my code!  I've
been going nuts for the last week trying to find out why a program
using SCO's curses library doesn't work.  You type "abcdefg" at it
and you are likely as not to get something like "agcdp ph".  I
figured it was a stray pointer bug in my code clobbering something
in the curses library code.  Maybe not...

The same code works fine under Ultrix and Apple A/UX.

-Fred
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