Subject: Re: Garbage in Pico editor.

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 1994 21:26:44 -0700 (PDT)

I went looking for that stray character bug a while back, but didn't find it. 
It does seem to change which character gets displayed between versions... 

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On 25 Aug 1994, Scott Mckinsey wrote:

> I  have the pine-3.89 package, and am using linux 1.1.45 with ncurses 1.8.5
> The problem is that in the upper left hand corner of Pico is one 
> character of garbage.  I think the same thing was happening with ncurses
> 1.8.1.  I've recompiled with no effect.
> 
> Anyone seen this?
> 
> Scott M.
> 
>

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From: [email-masked] (Gunther Anderson)
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 14:35:40 GMT

David L Miller ([email-masked]) wrote:

: I went looking for that stray character bug a while back, but didn't find it. 
: It does seem to change which character gets displayed between versions... 

When I was trying to track it down in 3.05 oh so long ago, I would up 
just changing the definition of the top line, so the line with garbage 
would be overwritten.  I never could find where it was coming from 
either.  It went away (on SCO) in later versions.

Gunther

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From: [email-masked] (Scott Mckinsey)
Date: 25 Aug 1994 00:01:11 GMT

Anyone seen this?

Scott M.

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From: [email-masked] (Bryan Vold)
Date: 25 Aug 1994 16:01:29 -0500

In article <[email-masked]>,
>> 1.8.1.  I've recompiled with no effect.

I found the solution to this.  Apparently it happens under MS-DOS (as well as
Linux), because there is code in display.c that handles this little bug.  What
you need to do is add LINUX to the #if statement on line 916 of the display.c
file, and recompile.  The fixed line should look something like this:
			
			#if MSDOS || LINUX

That should do it.  Everyone who runs Pico on Linux say YEHHHHHH!!! ;-)

-Bryan
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From: [email-masked] (Steven King [Really!])
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 02:47:18 GMT

>1.8.1.  I've recompiled with no effect.

Yes, I see it too.  On my system it manifests itself as a reverse-video 
comma.  It doesn't affect anything though, so I haven't worried about it.

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From: [email-masked] (Bryan Vold)
Date: 29 Aug 1994 15:11:31 -0500

In article <[email-masked]>,
>comma.  It doesn't affect anything though, so I haven't worried about it.

Add:
       || linux

to the define on line 916 of display.c (it's an MS-DOS define).

Cheers,

-Bryan Vold