[comp.unix.ultrix] sc under Ultrix 4.0

bryan@BORN.phys.virginia.edu (Bryan K. Wright) (02/06/91)

Hi again,

	A postscript to my last posting:
	I've just noticed that the problem only occurs in decterm
windows, not in xterms.

				Bryan.

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mah@dec1.wu-wien.ac.at (Michael Haberler) (02/12/91)

In article <00943C97.7DAA0600@BORN.PHYS.VIRGINIA.EDU>, bryan@BORN.phys.virginia.edu (Bryan K. Wright) writes:
|> Hi folks,
|> 
|> 	Has anyone out there successfully ported 'sc' to a DECstation
|> running Ultrix 4.0 ?  I've just tried (with source code copied from
|> uunet.uu.net) and I've found that it compiles and runs with no
|> complaints, but some weird things happen with the screen control during
|> use.  The problems seem to be curses-related:  spreadsheet-cell entries
|> which appear or disappear depending on where the cursor is, truncated
|> strings, highlighting in the wrong places, etc.

Use cursesX.h instead of curses.h, and link with -lcursesX. I did a
ln -s /usr/include/cursesX.h curses.h in the sc directory, and 
included -I. in CFLAGS in  the Makefile.

- michael

|> 
|> 	Does anyone have experience with this sort of thing, or know
|> of a cure for it?
|> 
|> 					Thanks in advance,
|> 					Bryan
|> 
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|> |              University of Virginia Physics Department              |
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|> | Internet: Bryan@gomez.phys.Virginia.EDU, Bitnet: bkw1a@Virginia.EDU |
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|> | "If you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste   |
|> |  much more like prunes than rhubarb does."  -- Groucho              |
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