Re: bug: ncurses + slackware 10.0, 10.1

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Russell Whitaker wrote:

> Hi
>
> Program below illustrates a bug: lower case a,  lower case f thru z,
> and number 0 are printed with graphic characters. This bug did not
> appear in earlier versions of slackware.

I don't have Slackware 10.0 or 10.1; a quick try at testing this with
Debian isn't working out, since the Debian package apparently doesn't
build any of the units - just the compiler.

However, if it's an ncurses change (nothing offhand occurs to me, reading
the example), one could use ltrace to get a reasonable idea of the calls
that are being made in ncurses (not 100%, since some of the interface may
modify the WINDOW struct directly, but probably good enough to see this
sort of problem).

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