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In message <18628.800876194@westhill.cdrom.com> Gary Palmer writes:

>In message <ZL9q5ll8L1@astral.msk.su>, "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" writes:
>>A_UNDERLINE not works with color VGA, but A_BOLD *is* worked!
>>A_BOLD may not works on some mono's, I don't shure that syscons
>>handle it right. Tell me what is your A_BOLD problems
>>(probably we need to fix termcap or syscons).

>When we printed a bold string which started at column 0 of the display
>using curses, the first word wasn't highlighted until the row
>underneath was altered. If you want to see the bugs (both this one and
>the underline bug) in action, back out those changes in your local
>copy of the source code and build sysinstall and try running it first
>on the syscons display, and then on an xterm and see what was intended
>(you don't need to alter your disk to get to these bugs, you can see
>them just by going in to ``edit'' your existing partitions (in
>theory)).

Can you send me simple several-lines example how it broken?
Something like:

main()
{
	initscr();
	set bold as you do
	display string as you do
	refresh();
	endwin();
}

I'll check sysinstall later, but this sounds as improper curses usage.

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