Re: [Tiny-cobol-users] screen section

[David E. <de...@ar...>]

donald tees wrote:

 > I have installed Tinycobol on a Mandrake Linux system,
 > and it appears to  be working, with the exception of the
 > screen section.
 > Perhaps I am missing libraries, or a compilation/link option
 > ... I do not know.
 > The normal display verb works fine, and the screen section
 > compiles.  However, a display screen-name appears to have no
 > effect at all, and the accept screen-name falls through immediately
 > to the stop run below it.
 > Perhaps someone can clue me in, or give me a hint where to look.

The TC source code contains some sample SCREEN programs in the
'test.code' directory.
With minor modifications to the make files these should compile
and run.

However the TC SCREEN SECTION is dependent on nCurses, which made the
TC RTL a real pain to maintain as I could not get any consistency
between nCurses versions and/or terminals.
Fix one problem in one place and another would usually appear. Or
change the terminal, say from linux to vt220, and the colors would
change or the blink option would no longer work.

If the source code examples fail to run, the try using a different
terminal program and/or TERM variable (export TERM=linux).