A/UX 2.0 curses - buggy at the best ?
Jon W{tte
d88-jwa at dront.nada.kth.se
Wed Jan 23 06:31:21 AEST 1991
In article <> liam at cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts;) writes:
>>I've tried to use the supplied AUX curses library, and run into
>Which version of curses are you using? The choices under A/UX are:
>>2) A_BOLD changes the spacing of the text as well as boldifying it.
>> Making this work in a sensible way would be trivial. (This might
I believe the attributes aren't available under BSD curses ?
It's the terminfo version, for sure.
>This is a problem due to the CommandShell - it tries to get bold text (as
>distinct from reverse mode and underline mode) by the old daisywheel trick of
Well, moving left one pixel after drawing each character would make
things work in a much better way. I PLEAD for this being implemented !
>>3) The keypad ( ) numbers don't work very well either - the arrow
>This is due to a bug in the handling of multi-byte character sequences with
>select/raw mode input - it was described on this newsgroup some while ago and
>I worked away at it a bit and sent in a proper SPR on it.
Let's hope... 2.0.1 is due soon...
>the CommandShell terminal emulation problem is to use the much vaunted Comms
>Toolbox and have a CommandShell whose terminal emulation was provided by a
>Comms Toolbox terminal tool: we could then plug in our own terminal types as
How very appropriate ! A good solution !
Meanwhile, I'm disgruntedly forced to work in the SPARC this has to
be compatible with.
h+
Jon W{tte, Stockholm, Sweden, h+ at nada.kth.se
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