-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Bob Rossi on 1/28/2006 9:19 PM: > On Linux, something totally different happens. When I initialize > readline, it eventually calls tgetent, which happens to set LINES and > COLS to the correct size of the terminal. On cygwin this doesn't happen. > The call readline makes to tgetent leaves LINES and COLS alone. Then, > in Cygwin when I get to initscr, LINES and COLS is set to 25x80, unless > I set the LINES and COLUMNS environment variables before the call to > initscr.
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man3/tgetent.3.html does not document that tgetent() messes with the environment, but if that is the case, you may be onto something. Perhaps it really is something cygwin1.dll needs to patch to be more similar to linux. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD3h6h84KuGfSFAYARAksIAJ9elsYMWPiSZHWpanbnBv6nJHpw5QCgwmEQ floUSXqiaA0uiBNLyKGqa/Q= =vmkr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
