[LUAU] Problems with ncurses

[Chris Wong]

On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Myles Uyema wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, David & Max wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying out some sample programs from one of my Linux books about
> > curses.  I could sucessfully run the program on the system console,but I
> > couldn't display anything using curses on my xterm.  Here is my code. and
> 
> I believe it is the xterm terminal info database which is the culprit.
> If you notice when you use any ncurses application in your xterm, it
> will clear the screen after you exit.  less is a good example I think,

I always thought that was a "feature". Heh. I guess it's a bug. As for a
workaround... I can't think of anything off hand. Don't call endscr() that
often.

But yeah, it happens on every xterm I used. And i used a lot.

--
chris


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