Hi all,

It worked! Now I can continue my quest of trying to go back to being a COBOLER again. Hmmm... that sounded strangely like another profession that is much needed to keep the world on it's feet but much under-appreciated.

Anyway, in hindsight, I encountered this problem of disappearing stdscr before when I was learning ncurses years ago. I just forgot about it :mrgreen:. In fact it is documented in the book by Dan Gookin, Programmer's Guide to nCurses. Apparently the culprit is the rmcup "feature" in terminfo that restore the screen after program termination, thus throwing away what I just tried to display. Most software will wait around for user input or user command to terminate so this "feature" will normally not cause any problems. I read that you can remove it all together from terminfo to disable it or you could use xterm where there is a way to disable it at runtime.

Thanks for the help and thanks for OpenCOBOL.
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seetho

p.s. my apologies for double posting earlier.

cross posted from forum.peoplecards.ca for seetho by btiffin