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Subject: ncurses programs broken, won't work in recent -STABLE
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>Number:         4234
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       ncurses programs broken, won't work in recent -STABLE
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Aug  6 08:20:01 PDT 1997
>Closed-Date:    Wed Mar 25 21:05:27 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:  Wed Mar 25 21:10:06 PST 1998
>Originator:     Andrew Stesin
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2-970801-RELENG i386
>Organization:
Global Ukraine Inc.
>Environment:

	FreeBSD 2.2-970801-RELENG i386, freshly installed from
	a snapshot; lynx port as of yesterday --
	lynx-2.7.1ac-0.45, display is `cons30r' though
	the same applies to a plain `cons25' display.

>Description:

	When lynx is built "by default" (means: with ncurses)
	character display is screwed -- no highligting, no other
	effects, and even worse: the whole screen is screwed --
	it won't even do CR and LF, everything goes in a one-very-long-line
	mixture.

	Same applies to i.e. ncftp2.

	Rebuilding the whole libraries from source doesn't fix the problem.

	Rebuilding lynx (&& other affected programs) with 
	"plain old curses" fixes the problem
	(though the screen is so much less fancy :)

	The problem didn't exist in the late-June STABLE snapshots.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Install a recent 2.2-STABLE and try to use your old lynx,
	or to build a new one from the port.

>Fix:
	
	No idea about what has been changed in ncurses during
	July... :(  Might be termcap problem also,
	but I didn't notice any changes there.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: hoek 
State-Changed-When: Wed Mar 25 21:05:27 PST 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
1)  I can't duplicate this (ie. Lynx works!).  If it happened reguarly, 
^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hstill and on everyone's systems, we would probably have 
been flooded with reports. 

2)  Ping to originator failed.  As usual, feel free to comment if you 
ever see this... 
>Unformatted:
