Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:05:34 +0000 From: Vitalis <vitalis@numericable.fr> To: dickey@radix.net Cc: dickey@saltmine.radix.net Subject: Re: ncurses-5.3 buggy under 5.1-current Message-ID: <1064167533.578.6.camel@sankukai.ice-age.org> In-Reply-To: <200309211737.h8LHbh7S006280@saltmine.radix.net> References: <200309211737.h8LHbh7S006280@saltmine.radix.net>
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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...
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