Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!s.cs.uiuc.edu!mccaugh From: mccaugh@s.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Curses question... Message-ID: <207600031@s.cs.uiuc.edu> Date: 8 Aug 89 23:55:00 GMT References: <11157@polya.Stanford.EDU> Lines: 4 Nf-ID: #R:polya.Stanford.EDU:11157:s.cs.uiuc.edu:207600031:000:182 Nf-From: s.cs.uiuc.edu!mccaugh Aug 8 18:55:00 1989 May I suggest using the "termcaps" functions (tgetent, etc.) which are 'higher-level' (so less prone to machine-level problems) and thus more reliable -- and they worked for me.