[H-GEN] Curses or Ncurses

[Sid Young]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Sid Young <syoung at powerup.com.au>)

Thanks Bob,

I was beginning to suspect their was a complete lack of support under HP-UX
for this.


At 22:45 13/05/99 +0000, you wrote:
>(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Bob Hepple
<bhepple at bit.net.au>)
>
>Sid Young wrote:
>> 
>> (Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Sid Young
<syoung at powerup.com.au>)
>> 
>> First, a big thanks to the people who responded, most helpfull however...
>> 
>> I tried to compile the programs on the HPUX boxes at work and although the
>> compiles were ok the program produced crappy borders using "|" and "-"
>> (pipe and minus)  with "+" as the corner pieces.
>> 
>> I looked in the /usr/lib/ and there is only libcurses.a no "libncurses.a"
>> are the enhanced borders only available in libncurses.a ??
>> 
>> I tried a variety of terminal type wyse60, vt100 and ANSI to no avail.
>> 
>> Any suggestions...
>> 
>
>You probably need to hack your terminfo entry so that curses knows how
>to generate decent line drawing characters.
>
>The entry is acsc and the following works well on my xterm (under Linux,
>who knows about hockey pux?)
>
>acsc=``aaffggiijjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~, 
>
>"man terminfo" should lead you in the right direction... also, look at
>tic and infocmp programs.
>
>
>Cheers
>
>
>Bob
>
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