Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c:12717 comp.unix.questions:9272 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!yale!spolsky-avram From: spolsky-avram@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Curses differences on 4.3 and Ultrix V2.2 Message-ID: <38132@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 18 Sep 88 05:45:35 GMT References: <3711@cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk> Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: spolsky-avram@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT 06520-2158 Lines: 18 In article <3711@cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk> Peter_Cutting@newcastle.ac.uk (P. G. Cutting) writes: | | I wrote a simple windowing system using Curses on a 4.3 machine. Eventually | it worked but now when I recompile it and run it on an Ultrix machine the | windows get messed up. I have checked Termcap entries and STTY entries which | seem OK, and so I conclude that there are differences between Curses on the | two machines. Can any one back up this conclusion and maybe suggest where the | problem might be. 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. Joel Spolsky bitnet: spolsky@yalecs uucp: ...!yale!spolsky Yale University arpa: spolsky@yale.edu voicenet: 203-436-1483 "You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!!"