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- From: jmartino@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (James R Martino)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
- Subject: Problem with sc (spreadsheet calculator)
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 14:56:02 -0500
- Organization: Homewood Academic Computing, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md, USA
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- Summary: Arrow keys unhappy
- Keywords: sc
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- The binary (sc) supplied with sc6.8.cpio.Z from osu.cis does not seem to
- support the unixpc arrow keys - they move around well enough without any
- data entered, but after a few cells are full, using arrow keys will
- eventually result in catatonia, a "Memory error" and a core dump.
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- I thought it might be nice to enable the arrow keys or the numeric
- keypad to work with the unixpc, and have been studying the lex.c file.
- Before messing with the code, however, I tried to see if I could build
- the binary myself, using cc and gcc (and the Makefile), but found that
- there are problems referencing functions - looks like missing or
- incomplete libraries or headers. Some problems can be worked around,
- but I can't deal with missing functions like tgetent, etc.
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- Does anyone know how the sc binary on osu-cis was built? Was it done
- on a unixpc? Was it done defining SIMPLE? Has anyone built this on the
- unixpc? What kind of can of worms am I opening here? And what about Naomi...
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- Note: Two other methods of moving the cursor (h,j,k,l and ^P,^B,^F,^N) work
- fine: I just thought I'd hack some improvements if it weren't too difficult.
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- Thanks in advance,
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- Jim Martino +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
- jrm@chow.mat.jhu.edu + PLACE COMMERCIAL HERE +
- jmartino@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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