Re: problem creating windows

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Folkert van Heusden wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A user of multitail complains that resizing windows makes multitail exit.
> I did some investigations, and it seems that at the exit-moment, I'm creating
> a window of 172x14 at offset 0,0 while COLS/LINES says the terminal-size is
> 172x44, so it seems multitail is not doing anything funny.
> The user is using ncurses 5.3 on linux and freebsd.

"5.3" could mean 5.3, or with patches.  FreeBSD is the former.  So it
doesn't have this post-5.3 patch:

20021228
        + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
          special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
          by Lucas Gonze <address@hidden>).

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