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From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsys.demon.co.uk>
To: Bob Willcox <bob@obiwan.pmr.com>
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Subject: Re: tgetnum wierdness on -current
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On Mon, 27 Mar 1995, Bob Willcox wrote:

> [snip]
> 
> to get the new window sizes (which works). Then it does an initscr()
> which calls setterm() which attempts an
> 
>     ioctl(STDERR_FILENO, TIOCGWINSZ, &win)

This is bogus.  It should be using the internal variable __tty_fileno 
which is set up when curses initialises.  Unless anyone can think of a 
good reason that it is using stderr, I will change this.

> [snip]

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