Pcomm1.2 with Xenix

Dave Hammond daveh at marob.MASA.COM
Sun Mar 12 07:06:56 AEST 1989


In article <2896 at megatest.UUCP> palowoda at megatest.UUCP (Bob Palowoda) writes:
>
>  I got Pcomm1.1 running on Xenix 2.2, when I try and user the 
>dialing directory I have to use <crtl><a><D>  "capitial D".
>All the other commands take a lowercase characters. I looked 
>at the case statement in the menu select code and there is 
>nothing that I can see wrong with it, and it's no different than
>the other commands sequences. Has anyone seen this, or is there
>a fix for this?

I don't run Pcomm, but I'm willing to bet that this is related to
the recent Pcomm-related posting concerning "getch()" in Curses.
The SCO getch() call is buggy, in that it returns null for several
keys, one-of-which is 'd'.

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Dave Hammond
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