How to restore terminal after curses program crashes?

[Art Neilson]

In article <1991Feb13.133332.22320 at ousrvr.oulu.fi> clegg at tolsun.oulu.fi (Matthew Tran Clegg/VTT) writes:
>I've been working on a program that uses the curses package and
>cbreak mode.  Once in a while, a bug will cause the program to
>crash (for example, with a segmentation fault).  This completely
>unhinges the terminal.  It won't respond to anything anymore,
>except if I press ^C, then the csh prompt will be printed.
>
>(I've noticed sometimes that nethack will crash in this way too, but
>only when the game is better than any I've had in months -- a real bummer.)
>
>Does anyone know how to restore the terminal to a sane state?
>So far, the only thing that has worked for me is the power switch :-).

The best way to handle this is to trap signals in the C program which
uses curses and have the signal handler call endwin() prior to exiting.
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