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From:	"deckerben" <deckerben AT freenet DOT de>
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Subject:	Terminal access for ncurses
Date:	Wed, 15 May 2002 15:16:11 +0200
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Hello,

I have started a port of ncurses to DJGPP. But I am running Windows 2000 and
there seems to be problem when an ncurses-enabled application  tries to
switch the terminal mode of my DOS screen.The curses part doesn't run at
all - I get a General Protection Fault. The only terminal mode that runs the
text-based tests readably is 'dumb'.

 First off all, I don't have any kind of a terminal driver like 'ansi.sys'
loaded. I have heard that ansi.sys doesn't run under NT at all. But somehow,
the terminal strings need to be made recognizable to the command
environment. My qustion is, is there perhaps a DJGPP software terminal
interpreter/TSR/library/etc  that could also maybe run under Windows2000 (as
the problem could very well be that ncurses tries to manipulte the terminal
directly, and NT doesn't understand it).



Ben

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