Re: Colored background problem

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 01:14:06PM -0400, Danny Rodriguez wrote:
> 
> Consider this program :
> 
> This should make the upper part of the screen with a background of blue. 
> When I log in locally and run this program, it does.  When I SSH to my box
> via Putty, it doesn't....  I am not sure if this is a bug with Putty, or a
> bug with Ncurses.
> 
> It will display a background of blue only when you display a character other
> than space...  Or a string with a space within it.  This leads me to believe
> it's a problem with ncurses itself.

no - it's a problem with your choice of terminfo (usually a mismatch
of the setting for bce).

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