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Article #4110gnuchess/ncurses compatibility?
From: Nikhil Nair
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 00:00
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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