thomson (10/12/82)
Curses limits the total length of all string capabilities in a terminal description to 128 characters, and fails in silent and strange ways if this limit is exceeded. The local manifestations were games of "rogue" that would not die. The only documented limit seems to be 1024 bytes for the entire text of the description, so to be on the safe side we have increased the string length limit to 1024 as well. a We run 4.1BSD; the change is in version 1.3 of file cr_tty.c (5/15/81) where static char tspace[128], becomes static char tspace[1024], Brian Thomson CSRG University of Toronto utcsrgv!thomson
tombl (02/16/83)
The CURSES overlay() routine causes a core dump. The fix is simple: substitute # define max(a,b) (a > b ? a : b) for # define max(a,b) (a < b ? a : b) on line 5 of overlay.c. Tom Blenko decvax!teklabs!tekmdp!tombl ucbvax!teklabs!tekmdp!tombl