From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 28 20:00:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BD3616A4CE for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:00:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zen.rupture.net (zen.rupture.net [216.22.46.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05AC343D2F for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:00:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jon@rupture.net) Received: from zen.rupture.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zen.rupture.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iBSK0B6f084424 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:00:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jon@rupture.net) Received: (from jon@localhost) by zen.rupture.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iBSK0BhJ084423 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:00:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jon@rupture.net) X-Authentication-Warning: zen.rupture.net: jon set sender to jon@rupture.net using -f Received: by zen.rupture.net (tmda-sendmail, from uid 500); Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:00:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 15:00:10 -0500 To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20041228200009.GT1757@zen.rupture.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i From: Jon Nathan Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.0.3 (Seattle Slew) X-Primary-Address: jon@rupture.net Subject: Need a little assistance porting 'boggle' from NetBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Jon Nathan List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:00:15 -0000 Hello, I'm trying to build a FreeBSD port of boggle from NetBSD's base system. I checked out their sources, made a bunch of modifications so that it would compile under FreeBSD, and built out the port skeleton. The program runs as expected except for one small thing. After displaying the help file, it doesn't clear the screen to display the puzzle. I've tried to add calls to each of the clear-screen-looking functions, but can't get it to work. The port skeleton is available here: http://www.rupture.net/~jon/boggle/bog.tar.gz The boggle source, as I've cobbled it together, is here: http://www.rupture.net/~jon/boggle/boggle-8.2.tar.gz If anyone could help me get this one last bit to work, that would be great. (I emailed Barry Brachman, listed as the original auther, but got no response.) The included 'patch-af' shows where I've tried to add clear-screen calls. Thanks, -Jon -- Jon Nathan jon@rupture.net