[Coco] curses update, good+bad news

Willard Goosey goosey at virgo.sdc.org
Fri Jan 28 19:42:43 EST 2011


The Good News:
I have uploaded http://www.sdc.org/~goosey/os9/curses010.lzh Curses
release 0.10.  

This is a major bug-fix release.  Numerous problems with how curses
calls termcap have been fixed.  Character padding would now work, if
termcap actually did it...

Also, the termcap support files termcap.h, termcap, and ttytype are
now included.  termcapLII.lzh not included but is also availabe in the
same directory, on rtsi, and on Gene's page.

The Bad News:

I have convinved myself that there's a bug in termcap.l's tgetent()
function that will crash the entire CoCo when invoked.  I really do
not want to maintain termcap, but I guess I have to.

Therefore, I'm calling a halt on Curses for the moment, while I dive
into debugging termcap.  If anyone knows anything about this bug or
wants to help, please help! 

Willard
-- 
Willard Goosey  goosey at sdc.org
Socorro, New Mexico, USA
I search my heart and find Cimmeria, land of Darkness and the Night.
  -- R.E. Howard



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