[net.wanted.sources] curses wanted

jordan@greipa.UUCP (Jordan K. Hubbard) (08/09/85)

The window manager recently posted need a batch of patches to
curses to run. I can't find my copy of curses (the sources) anywhere
though I had them at one time. Can anyone post them?
-- 
		Jordan K. Hubbard
		{pesnta, decwrl, dual, pyramid}!greipa!jordan

		"Here we have two bull limpits, locked in a life-or-death
		"struggle."

trt@rti-sel.UUCP (Tom Truscott) (08/09/85)

I do not think The Regents would like their libcurses sources posted.

If patching up libcurses is too difficult, you could try patching wm
instead: change all occurrences of 'leaveok(..., TRUE)' to '..., FALSE)'.
And copy curses.h.new to the wm src directory, renaming it curses.h.
That might result in a tolerable wm, but probably not.

BTW, here is a fix for the worst known bug in wm.
Save the vanilla wm sources, since if a wm patch kit is ever posted
it will assume a vanilla wm.
	*** wm.distrib/getch.c	Mon Aug  5 13:25:09 1985
	--- wm/getch.c	Mon Aug  5 12:07:11 1985
	***************
	*** 269,270
	  	    tty_backbuf[tty_backcnt++] = *bufp;
	  	return(*bufp);
	
	--- 269,272 -----
	  	    tty_backbuf[tty_backcnt++] = *bufp;
	+ 	tty_text[0] = *bufp;
	+ 	tty_textlen = 1;
	  	return(*bufp);