Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 09:37:13 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: curses.h
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On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> Other things in djgpp like less also use curses too so this is a big help.

AFAIK, the DJGPP port of Less does NOT use curses, it uses direct
screen writes.

> Before Christmas I had
> djgpp running and talking on this system.  After Christmas the info program
> just goes into deep space when it's run and locks up the keyboard.

Info needs to be invoked with the --speech-friendly switch to use
normal stdio functions (instead of the default direct-screen access).
Did you use that switch?