[Coco] window surprise

Willard Goosey goosey at virgo.sdc.org
Mon Jan 16 19:14:11 EST 2012


I've been playing around with termcap & curses, and made an
interesting and annoying discovery. (well, it's news to me!)

A window's (/wX) COL, PAG, and ROW descriptor settings are not updated
when the window is redefined!

With people telnetting into CoCos with arbitrarily sized xterms curses
needs to be able to find out what the screen size is.  I thought it
would be in the descriptor but windint's behavior suggests not.

So, does (nitr)OS-9 have a cannonical place that the terminal's screen
size is stored?  Rather that terminal be a window, a serial port, or a
Drivewire Network port.

Willard  
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Willard Goosey  goosey at sdc.org
Socorro, New Mexico, USA
I search my heart and find Cimmeria, land of Darkness and the Night.
  -- R.E. Howard



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