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From: gordon@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Ultrix cbreak (curses) missing?
Message-ID: <21716@prls.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 89 16:18:38 GMT
References: <172@larry.sal.wisc.edu> <6745@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: gordon@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers)
Organization: Philips Research Labs, Sunnyvale, California
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In article <6745@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
->
->There is also a long standing "bug" with Ultrix curses that shows up if
->you try to make the net.sources "sc" spread sheet program under Ultrix.
->If you do it under 4.3 it works fine, and the 4.3 executable works fine
->with Ultrix, but if you do the compile under Ultrix, you get this intersting
->diagonal effect instead of columns.  It may be fixed in 3.0, I don't know...

   Yes, It's been fixed in Ultrix 3.0

->Apparently some confused person at DEC tried to "fix" some other "bug" he
->perceived with curses, but broke the proper operation...  Adding the
->following lines to the end of sc.h (or curses.h 8-) backs out the screwup...
->
->#ifdef ultrix
->#undef nl
->#undef nonl
->#define nl()	 (_tty.sg_flags |= CRMOD,_pfast = _rawmode,stty(_tty_ch, &_tty))
->#define nonl() (_tty.sg_flags &= ~CRMOD, _pfast = TRUE, stty(_tty_ch, &_tty))
->#endif

     Or, make the change in curses.h so you won't have to troubleshoot
   the problem later when you try to compile something else.