Subj : ncurses
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Sun Sep 10 2017 20:20:10

Hello Maurice,

On Sun Sep 10 2017 21:21:06, Maurice Kinal wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 MK> Yes I did but it really isn't ncurses that is acting up.  Rather it is
 MK> ncurses apps that use libmenu, libform, etc. that have issues with
 MK> 6.0.  So far it hasn't really been an issue with me personally but I
 MK> can see how it would be extremely annoying to users that thrive on
 MK> those sorts of things.  I am sure an upgrade of those apps would
 MK> resolve the issue(s) but in certain cases I wouldn't hold my breath on
 MK> that happening.

Ah, well, maybe they'll push those apps out soon after.

 NB>> seem to be displaying odd and/or different from how they were
 NB>> before I upgraded

 MK> Sounds familiar.  The only fidonet editors I've tried since upgrading
 MK> ncurses has been golded and msged and noticed they don't appreciate
 MK> 6.0.  Back when 6.0 first came out I tried using both 5.9 and 6.0 and
 MK> that seems to have satisfied the older apps.  I might do that again or
 MK> just revert back to 5.9 if push comes to shove which is unlikey.

Msged didn't have any problems here, just Golded. Msged doesn't use ANSI line 
drawing characters, only ASCII, so it's not really affected. Golded, however, 
even while ncurses was changing those ANSI line drawings to q, x, and a couple 
other letters, now it's way worse, as in half the screen missing at times. 

 MK> Same here but I don't recall exactly what app was at the heart of the
 MK> something.  Probably golded.  I didn't try any of the msged menuing
 MK> templates but I am willing to bet there is a problem there as well.

Yeah that was it. My BBS software's configuration program also uses ncurses, 
and looks pretty bad there too.

Regards,
Nick

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