Curses and the arrow keys

[Marshall Lake]

In article <MEISSNER.90Aug26173207 at osf.osf.org> meissner at osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes:
>In article <1990Aug24.175453.4310 at irscscm.UUCP> mlake at irscscm.UUCP
>(Marshall Lake) writes:
>
>| [Question about using arrow keys with curses]

>[Docs for keypad ()]
>
>Note that KEY_LEFT and friends will not fit in an ordinary character,
>so make sure getch's result is stored in an int.
>
>If your curses is still based on the Berkeley curses, you have my
>sympathies.  This is one area where System V is better than BSD.

Really?  Sympathies?!?!  That's all I can get using Berkeley curses?!
:<

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