[Buffalo-pm] Perl Curses On OSX

Jim Brandt cbrandt at buffalo.edu
Fri Feb 3 11:57:23 PST 2006


Depends on what I'm doing. Both have advantages and disadvantages.

If I'm doing things to specifically work on the Mac, I use terminal. You 
can launch applications, drag things from the Finder to the terminal 
window, etc.

Any general unixy or perl things, I usually use a real Xterm.



DANIEL MAGNUSZEWSKI wrote:
> Do you generally use Xterm instead of Terminal? Just curious.
> 
>>>> "Jim Brandt" <cbrandt at buffalo.edu> 02/03/06 12:46 PM >>>
> 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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