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gnuchess/ncurses compatibility?

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From: Nikhil Nair
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 00:00
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Hi all,

I've been successfully running gnuchess on Linux for some time using BSD 
curses and the a.out binary format.  I now need to package it for the 
`elf' binary format and the ncurses library.

It compiled fine, and runs fine, except that keyboard input is not 
echoed.  It does get through to the program, so if you're prepared to 
type blind, you're fine ... but I suspect most people won't like that 
much :-).

BTW, I have successfully run it on Solaris 2, which uses elf and SVR4 
curses; since ncurses is SVR4-compatible, I would have thought it should 
work.

Since the maintainer of BSD curses has declared it obsolete and directed 
that ncurses should be used instead, this is quite a serious issue.

Any help welcomed (yes, and unlike many people recently, I have checked the 
FAQ).

Thanks,

Nikhil.
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Date: 1996/02/29
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