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From: pen@formtek.UUCP (Philip E. Nickerson, Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals,comp.bugs.misc,comp.misc,comp.sources.d,comp.unix.questions,comp.windows.misc
Subject: 24th line / 80th column problem with curses
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Date: 5 Jan 90 15:33:26 GMT
Reply-To: pen@formtek.UUCP (Philip E. Nickerson, Jr.)
Organization: Formative Technologies, Inc. (Formtek), Pittsburgh, PA
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I am having difficulty in using curses and would appreciate some help,
if anybody can help.

Please E-MAIL me if you have the answer as I rarely get time to read
news.  If you too would like to receive any replies I get, please let
me know.  If it is interestingly difficult, rather than my own
stupidity, I'll post the answer later.

Here is the problem:

I have a 24x80 screen and would like to put a character in the last
column on the last line without the terminal scrolling.  The terminal
I have has auto-margins, which seems to force the scroll on refresh,
no matter what I do.  I have created curses windows with no scrolling,
which return an error and do not place anything in the that position,
and I have tried to fool the termcap file into thinking that my
terminal does not have auto-margins, which causes curses to add an
extra scroll line at the end.  All I simply want is a stationary
non-scrolling screen in which I can address all 24x80 chaaracter
positions.

Thank you all in advance for your help.
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