From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA17759 for ; Thu, 9 May 1996 10:43:17 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA21683; Wed, 8 May 1996 20:37:10 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 20:37:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Zefram Message-Id: <9906.199605090036@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: echotc To: hzoli@cs.elte.hu (Zoltan Hidvegi) Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 01:36:41 +0100 (BST) Cc: A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <199605090021.CAA29799@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> from "Zoltan Hidvegi" at May 9, 96 02:21:57 am X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]7475.12 X-US-Congress: Moronic fuckers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"mVEnE1.0.jI5.ruJan"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1027 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu >This can only happen if NCURSES_VERSION but you do not link zsh with >ncurses or if your ncurses behaves differently than mine. I use 1.9.8a >and it the tgetflags function there returns 1 if a boolean capability is >on, 0 if it is off and -1 if there is no boolean capability with that >name. We can add checks for older ncurses'es if necessary. It shouldn't be touching ncurses at all. There is a termcap library that works, and a quick strings of the binary shows that it's linked with it. The man page makes no mention of tgetflag() returning -1, however. -zefram