Subject: Re: curses!
To: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: current-users
Date: 06/03/2000 11:52:45
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 08:28:58PM +0930, Brett Lymn wrote:
> According to Patrick Welche:
> >
> >Indeed, reverse video happy in sh - then again, I don't know that it was
> >broken before, and any idea on how to get this to work in csh?
> 
> I have an idea but it is not pretty.  The word size limit in csh is
> set at BUFSIZ which happens to be 1024 bytes.  The not pretty bit is
> working out what references the word buffer and ensure that all the
> range checking is done properly.  Anyone who likes csh (oh, and tcsh
> as well) enough is most welcome to have a stab at this....

Just saw for csh.c:

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revision 1.25
date: 2000/05/31 22:48:44;  author: christos;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -4
decouple us from stdio's BUFSIZ and boost BUFSIZE to 4K
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I don't have the old-curses-linked broken binaries left, but I take it that
all loose ends are covered!

Thank you all!

Patrick