Bug#157093: ncurses-base: xterm-mono is not useable as an xterm without colors

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@herndon4.his.com>]

On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:53:08AM +0100, Sven Rudolph wrote:
> Thomas Dickey writes:
> > I looked at this a little tonight, and think I see the problem.  I set
> > my LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/lib/debug, set NCURSES_TRACE to trace calls,
> > and ran dselect.  That makes a 'trace' file in the current directory.
> > 
> > There's a call to wbkgdset() with a garbaged background value:
> > 
> > called {wbkgdset(0x8078f9c,{' ' = 0x20 | {A_STANDOUT|A_ALTCHARSET|A_PROTECT|A...
> > 
> > There are only three calls to this function in dselect, and the one with
> > helpscreen_attr does not appear to initialize the value when the program
> > is not started on a color terminal.
> 
> Based on your diagnosis I created the patch:

that sounds reasonable
 
> This patch fixes the problem for me.

;-)

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