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bug report & help needed



Ilan Finci writes:

 > I'm working on a program that uses the ncurses library ?(so I'll
 > have the pad system) but for some readon this is not working with
 > the linux system I have at home (the same program works at the Unix
 > system at the University)
 > 
 > A simelar problem I had with the curses library.

I recall reading something about problems with curses & ncurses,
either on comp.os.linux.* or on the linux GCC mailing list.  All I
remember is that there are some versions of curses which don't work
with Linux, but I think there's at least one version of ncurses which
does work.  But, I don't know where to find it.  You might want to
contact the following people with
the details of your problem (taken from the linux address list):

Name: Zeyd M. Ben-Halim
E-mail: zmbenhal@netcom.com
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Stuff: ncurses (SYS V curses)

You also might want to pick up the DIALOG package (a package for
putting up menues from a shellscript).  It uses ncurses, so maybe it
will tell you what you need to know about getting ncurses to work.

Here's an old reference to it's location on sunsite (& thus probably
mirrored on ftp.technion).  I think it's up to version .3 by now.

/pub/Linux/utils/shell/dialog-0.1.tar.gz (13139 bytes)
   displays dialog boxes from a shell script w/ ncurses (Dec 16 16:50:27 GMT)

Good luck,

Harvey J. Stein
Berger Financial Research
hjstein@math.huji.ac.il