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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:14:16 -0500
From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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To: Dan Levin <dan DOT levin AT mdh DOT se>
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Subject: Re: Problem with scanw() in ncurses
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Known problem; no known explanation.  I think there's a note in the
release announcement that the test program
(/usr/bin/ncurses-test-dll/testscanw.exe) doesn't work; check
cygwin-announce archives.  This problem is not dll-related, because the
statically-linked version (/usr/bin/ncurses-test-stat/testscanw.exe)
also does not work. 

Debug results and patches gratefully and gleefully accepted.

--Chuck
cygwin ncurses maintainer

Dan Levin wrote:
> 
> Hello everybody !
> 
> I downloaded Cygwin yesterday and was delighted to find ncurses included
> ! I started a test with a bigger program that I originally wrote for
> Linux. It worked out fine - except for one thing. I could not read
> integers from the keyboard with 'scanw()' ! I was rather surprised, so I
> made a small test program that focuses on  function 'scanw()' in
> ncurses. This is how it looks:
> 

[code]

> 
> When I run it - I always get 0 as a result. If I don't initialize the
> variables 'a' and 'b' - I get a random number instead. I interpret this
> as the fact that 'scanw()' fails in putting the numbers I enter from the
> keyboard in 'a' and 'b' ! I've checked with gdb - with the same result !
> I've looked through the mail archives without finding a message
> concerning the same problem.
> 
> Platform: Win98SE on a DELL OptiplexGX1p
> 
> I'm rather eager to get ncurses working in Cygwin, since I think it
> would be a great environment for educational purposes in C/C++ (together
> with Emacs for Windows)!
> 
> Anybody got an idea !? Thanks in advance !

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