SCO's curses

[Paul Barton-Davis]

its probably the fact that chtype is a long, not a char, and stores
character attributes in one half, and the character value in the
other.

the curses.h header is pretty dumb about this, in that you can
redefine chtype to be char or long yourself, despite the fact that 
the library has already been built with one type throughout. this
also causes problems with the scrdump format - if anyone has been
able to read a curses screen dump on a V/386 system, let me know how
they did it, because the manual page does not match the format I
found. it also refers to "chtype" despite the fact that the user
has no idea of how chtype was defined when the libraries were built.

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Paul Barton-Davis			<pauld at cs.washington.edu>
UW Computer Science Lab		``to shatter tradition makes us feel free''