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From: srt@aerospace.aero.org (Scott "CBS" Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs,rec.games.programmer
Subject: Problem with scanw in curses
Message-ID: <50391@aerospace.AERO.ORG>
Date: 28 Apr 89 19:52:27 GMT
Reply-To: srt@aero.UUCP (Scott "CBS" Turner)
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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I've got a game program that uses a curses and has a call to 
scanw to read in an integer.  Unfortunately, it seems that backspace
and delete are disabled during this read, and I can't figure out
how to turn them back on.  I've tried using raw, noraw, etc. with
no effect.  Anyone have any idea what to do?

I've appended a little test program to this message if you want to 
play with this yourself.

						-- Scott Turner

#include <curses.h>
main()
{
  int foo;

  initscr();
  printw("Enter a number:");
  refresh();
  scanw("%d",&foo);
  printw("\nFoo is %d.\n", foo);
  refresh();
  getch();
  endwin();
  exit();
};