Curses 5.3 pad problem

[Nick Johnson]

Hi,

I've been unable to get pads working correctly in Curses 5.3.
The following problem runs fine on systems with curses 5.2, correctly 
displaying an '@' in the upper left before quitting, but on every system 
I have tried with curses 5.3, it fails to produce any output whatsoever. 
I can't help feeling I'm missing something - surely pads do still work 
in 5.3?

---Begin Code---
#include <ncurses.h>

int main() {
       WINDOW *w;
       initscr();
       w = newpad(256, 256);
       waddch(w, '@');
       prefresh(w, 0, 0, 0, 0, LINES, COLS);
       endwin();
}
---End Code---

-Nick Johnson