From: justins@iName.com (Justin Smith) Subject: Re: Problems with ncurses 5 Dec 1997 23:47:41 -0800 Message-ID: <3488FB22.66CF9A22.cygnus.gnu-win32@iname.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Buckingham,Mark,SOLON,NUSA" Cc: "'gnu-win32@cygnus.com'" Buckingham,Mark,SOLON,NUSA wrote: > > I'm trying to get ncurses compiled & running. (I downloaded ncurses > 1.9.9e from the Slackware linux distribution.) > > I remounted by C: drive as text = binary. No problems. > I ran configure. No problems. > Ran make. No problems. > > When I try to run any of the tests, I get something like the following: > > (c:\gnu\ncurses-1.9.9e\test\view.exe 3445) In cygwin_except_handler exc > C0000005 at 10042894 sp 242E5B0 > (c:\gnu\ncurses-1.9.9e\test\view.exe 3445) Exception trapped! > (c:\gnu\ncurses-1.9.9e\test\view.exe 3445) exception C0000005 at .... > > I get this on both my NT 4.0 machine with NTFS, and my windows 95 > machine. > > Here is the environment on my NT 4.0 machine: > .... > TERM=dumb > _=/gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/bin/env > > I know people have gotten ncurses to work ok. Any ideas? > Change TERM to something other than "dumb" ("linux" is a good start). I am still messing around with this, too, but dumb is, literally, "dumb", and cannot handle most of the functions ncurses can provide. -- Justin Smith, Systems Engineer with the law office of Dewey, Cheetam and Howe. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".