Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site boring.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!mcvax!boring!guido From: guido@boring.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs Subject: Terminfo distribution doesn't work? Message-ID: <6273@boring.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 11:23:41 EST Article-I.D.: boring.6273 Posted: Wed Jan 2 11:23:41 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jan-85 00:41:57 EST Reply-To: guido@mcvax.UUCP (Guido van Rossum) Distribution: net Organization: "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 30 Summary: Apparently-To: rnews@mcvax.LOCAL I don't believe there is a mod.sources.bugs newsgroup, so I post this here. I successfully unpacked all eleven parts of the terminfo distribution, and they indeed all compiled without complaints on our 4.2 BSD system. Then I tried to test it. Great disaster. The test program provided, mille, didn't run. There were several problems. After I fixed the trivial ones, I still got core dumps immediately after starting it up. Has anybody come this far? (Here is a list of the trivial problems. - putchar('') in a certain file -- I assume bells were eaten by a mailer underway. Anyway, the correct way to put a bell in a string is '\7' - #include-- must be on BSD systems - libpcurses not found -- used libdcurses) The nontrivial problem is: - memory fault - core dumped, immediately. in: delwin(0), from: main(...). I thought this was caused by mille.h #including , which (in my interpretation of the cc manual) will always use the old curses. Changed into "../../=src/curses.h". But the same problem occurs. Anybody got a clue? The system looks like a good one from the documentation and what I've seen of the source code; it would be a pity not to use it, but right now I don't have the stomach (nor time) for debugging it. Guido van Rossum, "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam guido@mcvax.UUCP