From: err AT raelity DOT com (Ernie Rael)
Subject: problem with ncurses and bl17.1 on NT4.0
5 Jan 1997 16:39:29 -0800
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I'm working on getting ncurses-1.9.9e working. After reading
"less, TERM and TERMINFO" from mansur AT pc DOT jaring DOT my in the
archives, i first tried to build it without the string.h hack.
It builds fine. But when i try to tic the terminfo data base
i got a plethera of use resolution failed messages, e.g.
	"pcansi-m: use resolution failed on klone+sgr-dumb"
After stepping through some code, i find that the failure
is occuring when _nc_resolve_uses() tries to read an existing,
allready compiled, entry from the terminfo data base. I walked
through the open, winsup/fhandler.cc, and the CreateFileA call
is failing.

I guess CreateFileA is some direct call to the NT kernel, as i
can find nothing about it.

The open is read only. Tic was able to create the file. I'm
stumped, any suggestions?

Since tic was able to create the entries, i removed the definition
of them from the .src file (thinking perhaps that the re-open
was failing). Same error.

-ernie
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