CRT on mingw

[Prof A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief)]

On 16 Sep 2005 at 13:42, Andres K. Foerster  wrote:

> Am Wednesday, dem 14. Sep 2005 schrieb Prof A Olowofoyeku (The African
> Chief):
> 
> > On 14 Sep 2005 at 15:33, Andres K. Foerster  wrote:
> > 
> > [....]
> > > > > ReadLn also behaves strange: It takes and displays the entered
> > > > > text correctly, but when I press the Enter-key, it just displays
> > > > > a musical note (the character of #13). When I repeat typing the
> > > > > Enter key, then at some point it is accepted. But the input
> > > > > string still has all the other
> > > > > #13's at its end.
> > 
> > Looks like something broken in your curses library, 
> 
> I've already replaced PDcurses with the newest version.
> Same problem in both versions.

Perhaps you might want to try the latest GPC snapshot:
http://gnu-pascal.de/contrib/chief/win32/mingw32/gpc-20050331.i386-pc-
mingw32.tar.gz

Although I doubt it will help you.

> > or some weird setting on your terminal.
> 
> Or could it be a problem with my old Windows version?

Possibly. Anything is possible under Windows.

> Have you tested it with the 95/98/ME series?

Not in recent times. In the past, yes - and then, I didn't experience 
these problems.

> > BTW: I don't think there is any need to call CrtInit directly.
> 
> If I leave it away, I even have problems under GNU/Linux with the 
> second program...

Well - that is a problem. As far as I know, you should not need to call 
CrtInit directly.

Best regards, The Chief
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Prof. Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) 
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