Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!play From: play@cwi.nl (The MC Funhouse Master) Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs Subject: Re: Wanderer unfair (really cbreak/nocbreak) Message-ID: <557@sering.cwi.nl> Date: 16 Jul 88 16:10:09 GMT References: <116@kl-cs.cs.kl.ac.uk> <4043@brspyr1.BRS.Com> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 17 In article <4043@brspyr1.BRS.Com> tim@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Tim Northrup) writes: > From an article by jonathan@cs.keele.ac.uk (Jonathan Knight): > > OK. I got wanderer going. I had to do it on a Sun as our > > Ultrix 1.2 machine puked at nocbreak() and cbreak(). Must be > > some function Sun's got that Ultrix hasn't. > > If you look in the man pages for curses(3) you should be able to find > a substitute for cbreak/nocbreak on your Ultrix system. On our Pyramid, > the calls were crmode() and nocrmode(). You probably have the same. > Yes, I did, but it did not mention crmode(), nor did it mention nocrmode(). But BSD do support crmode(). However, in my opinion it is best to skip the call to nocbreak/nocrmode, as the game does not use it and the subsequent endwin() call resets the terminal to the original modes. -- Game Keeper Mail: play@cwi.nl