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- From: sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org (Josef Wolf)
- Subject: Re: Problems with curses-library
- References: <C0GEI5.JBE@ppcger.ppc.sub.org> <1993Jan8.095343.1221@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
- Organization: PPC Cooperation
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:38:43 GMT
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- mayer@forwiss.tu-muenchen.de (Sebastian Mayer) writes:
- >In article <C0GEI5.JBE@ppcger.ppc.sub.org> sepp@ppcger.ppc.sub.org
- >>(Josef Wolf) writes:
- >>I have got some problems with curseperl. I create one window and set
- >>scrollok to 1 on that window. Every time when it comes to scroll, the
- >>y-position of the cursor will be set to -1.
-
- >I have had a similar problem. Sometimes Curses had a bug when changing
- >the position of the cursor which results in the wrong y-position 1.
- >Curses has different ways to change the cursor position. One way works
- >with tabstops, but these aren't correctly set on my mashine (termcap bug?).
- >so I changed 'cr_put.c' (libcurses.a) to use always the 'CM'-code (from
- >termcap) to change the cursor position and now it works.
-
- No chance, sorry :-( This is an _internal_ curses-error. It is simply
- that there must be a calculation-error by one inside the lib. I don't
- know whether the _real_ bugfix should go into move.pl. In fact, I doubt
- it should go there.
-
- Greetings
- Sepp
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- Josef Wolf, Germersheim, Germany
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