[16197] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.2.8: curs_border(3X)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Thu Aug 20 19:02:20 1998
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 18:08:00 -0400
To: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199808130852.EAA25961@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>
thank you for reporting this. The man page has a date 1/27/97, while an
older version (3/26/93) has the same text, so this is not exactly a new
problem.
Thank you for using Athena.
Mike Barker
MIT Information Systems
At 04:52 AM 8/13/98 -0400, Jacob Morzinski wrote:
:)System name: contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu
:)Type and version: SPARC/5 8.2.8 (with mkserv)
:)Display type: unknown
:)
:)What were you trying to do?
:) Read vendor manpages about curses. In particular,
:) documentation for the border() function.
:)
:)What's wrong:
:) The manpage mis-names two constants from curses.h
:) (ACS_BLCORNER and ACS_BRCORNER do not exist, they are
:) really ACS_LLCORNER, ACS_LRCORNER).
:)
:)What should have happened:
:) It should have been right.
:)
:)Please describe any relevant documentation references:
:)
:)curs_border(3X) says:
:) arguments is zero, then the following default values
:) (defined in curses.h) are used instead: ACS_VLINE,
:) ACS_VLINE, ACS_HLINE, ACS_HLINE, ACS_ULCORNER, ACS_URCORNER,
:) ACS_BLCORNER, ACS_BRCORNER.
:)
:)/usr/include/curses.h says:
:) #define ACS_ULCORNER ACS_BSSB
:) #define ACS_LLCORNER ACS_SSBB
:) #define ACS_URCORNER ACS_BBSS
:) #define ACS_LRCORNER ACS_SBBS
:)
