[Buffalo-pm] Perl Curses On OSX

Jim Brandt cbrandt at buffalo.edu
Fri Feb 3 09:46:30 PST 2006


If you have X11 installed, try it in a real Xterm. It might not work 
quite right in Terminal.


DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI wrote:
> Mongers,
> 
> Has anyone ever tried installing Curses (
> http://search.cpan.org/~giraffed/Curses-1.13/gen/make.Curses.pm ) on OS
> X (I'm running version 10.3.9). I found a website (
> http://freebsdgirl.com/?page_id=589 ) where someone else had this
> problem, and they provided a fix. I followed along with the fix
> described on the website. Everything seemed to compile and install
> correctly after that, but when I tried to run the program, I got some
> errors and my terminal was messed up (anything I typed wasn't being
> echoed to the screen, etc). Note, this is not one of my programs - it's
> a program that is known to work ;-) I just want to validate that the
> Curses fix I applied actually worked and that the install is good. This
> way I can eliminate that as the cause of the problem. Also, there didn't
> seem to be any tests that could be run for it during the
> compilation/installation.
> 
> Has anyone else run into a similar problem with installing Curses on
> OSX?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Dan
> 
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Jim Brandt
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