This may be a long shot, but I am trying to get Arthur Corliss's CursesWidgets 1.992 module to work on a SCO box. Must apologize first, I do not understand curses, no more than the average pig understands French.
Server OS: SCO Open Server 5 (oxymoron, but we can't call it SCO Abandoned Server 5, can we?) Historically, SCO is loved by many for its disk IO, terminal emulation, and dynamic linking problems (sarcasm). It can be considered a "challenged" OS :-) Workstation: Windows 2000 Telnet courtesy of HummingBird Exceed Perl 5.6.1, not a binary distribution, I compiled it myself on SCO with gcc. Curses modules also compiled with perl Makefile.PL CC=gcc. Tried compiling with the native SCO compiler cc, didn't get any better results. CursesWidgets requires Curses 1.06. All present and accounted for. Modules build with no problem, up until make test :-) Problem: While the addstr() method associated with the main window handle works, addstr() does not work correctly when invoked from a widget. Also, the "here document" method of writing to screen is broken. All spaces are stripped out of the output, so that "Welcome to the CursesWidgets Test Program" becomes "WelcometotheCursesWidgetsTestProgram" out there on the screen. And it likes to this regardless of whether TERM is ansi, xterm, vt100, or whatever. Action taken: Much archeology in the terminfo.src file, trying to find a TERM that worked. No luck so far. Diddled with Hummingbird's Terminal Options. No luck there either. Note that when I built the modules on the Linux box and logged in via Humming and set TERM to "linux", the above problem disappeared and the screens behave sanely. So, it works on Linux. Stealing the "linux" terminal definition from linuxbox->terminfo.src and compiling it with tic on SCO box did not work. Thanks in advance for any help. My organization could really use this functionality. I could tell you what we use to write screens around here, but you wouldn't believe me (ever heard of Flagship?). Thanks again. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
