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Subject: Re: ncurses-5.3 buggy under 5.1-current
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On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 17:37, dickey@radix.net wrote:
> what sort of bugs?
> 
> (and is this a problem with the port, rather than ncurses).
> 
> >      From: Vitalis (vitalis@numericable.fr)
> >      Subject: ncurses-5.3 buggy under 5.1-current
> >
> >
> >   This is the only article in this thread
> >                      View: Original Format
> >
> >   Newsgroups:
> >   mailing.freebsd.current
> >   Date: 2003-09-21 02:41:08 PST
> >
> >Hi!
> >
> >The installation of the ncurses-5.3 port leaves the system unusable for
> >apps needing libncurses e.g. vi, sysinstall... The characters on output
> >are severely scrambled.
> >
> >Its desinstallation solves the problem (the ncurses-5.2 from src/contrib
> >works fine with 5.1-current). But some good ports require ncurses-5.3!
> 

>what sort of bugs?

The output is unreadable: control characters such as newline characters
are discarded so that vi shows the whole files on one huge line. It's
the same thing with sysinstall; we can not navigate within it and it
dumps core after a few second.

> 
> (and is this a problem with the port, rather than ncurses).

I don't know...