Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c:12748 comp.unix.questions:9292 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!lanl!unm-la!unmvax!charon!predict From: predict@charon.unm.edu (Andrew R. Large) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Curses differences on 4.3 and Ultrix V2.2 Message-ID: <3693@charon.unm.edu> Date: 19 Sep 88 06:10:27 GMT References: <3711@cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk> <38132@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Reply-To: predict@charon.unm.edu.UUCP (Andrew R. Large) Organization: Management Sciences, Inc. Lines: 33 In article <...> spolsky-avram@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) writes: >In article <...> Peter_Cutting@newcastle.ac.uk (P. G. Cutting) writes: >| >| [ ... problems with Ultrix curses when 4.3 works fine ...] > >I also noticed that Ultrix Curses were weird. I am sure that Ultrix >Curses are very different than (from?) System V Curses; they could >also be quite different from BSD Curses. One problem I noted with >Ultrix Curses is that only one highlighting mode is supported. > In porting sc (the Spreadsheet Calculator from comp.sources.unix) to Ultrix some time back, I ran across a problem with the nonl() function. Ultrix seems to have problems outputting things correctly when CR-LF mapping isn't done. If you have any calls to nonl(), try taking them out and see if it does the trick. Only one highlighting mode? You mean there is more than one way to do reverse video? Or are you talking about another attribute (like bold text)? -- Andy -- -=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=- * Andrew R. Large * ** (work) 505/255-8611 ------| Univ of New Mexico EECE Department ** *** (home) 505/888-4010 |---> Management Sciences, Inc. [MSI] *** **** _Babooshka!_ **** *** Usenet: {convex,gatech,ucbvax,csu-cs,anl-mcs}!unmvax!charon!predict *** ** Internet: predict@charon.UNM.EDU ** * If I am quoted, my employers will deny my existence. * -=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-=*=-