Terminfo distribution doesn't work?

[guido at boring.UUCP]

I don't believe there is a mod.sources.bugs newsgroup, so I post this here.

I successfully unpacked all eleven parts of the terminfo distribution, and
they indeed all compiled without complaints on our 4.2 BSD system.
Then I tried to test it.  Great disaster.  The test program provided,
mille, didn't run.  There were several problems.  After I fixed the trivial
ones, I still got core dumps immediately after starting it up.  Has anybody
come this far?

(Here is a list of the trivial problems.
	- putchar('') in a certain file -- I assume bells were eaten
	  by a mailer underway.  Anyway, the correct way to put a bell
	  in a string is '\7'
	- #include <time.h> -- must be <sys/time.h> on BSD systems
	- libpcurses not found -- used libdcurses)

The nontrivial problem is:
	- memory fault - core dumped, immediately.
	  in: delwin(0), from: main(...).
	  I thought this was caused by mille.h #including <curses.h>,
	  which (in my interpretation of the cc manual) will always use the old
	  curses.  Changed into "../../=src/curses.h".
	  But the same problem occurs.

Anybody got a clue?  The system looks like a good one from the documentation
and what I've seen of the source code; it would be a pity not to use it, but
right now I don't have the stomach (nor time) for debugging it.

	Guido van Rossum, "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam
	guido at mcvax.UUCP