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Re: Why are the 32- and 64-bit cygwin1.dlls incompatible?


On 8/23/2013 2:12 PM, Warren Young wrote:
I don't think ncurses can work without a tty interface

Orpie runs in a cmd.exe window.  ncurses must have some fall-back mode.

When you launch a cygwin program in a cmd.exe window, cygwin sets up a tty-like interface (the TERM=cygwin terminal), and (cygwin)ncurses uses that.

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Chuck


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