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Patch for NCurses 1.8.5
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== Introduction ==============================================================

	This patch file is for ncurses 1.8.5.
	
== What You Need =============================================================

	* ncurses 1.8.5
		Can be found at ftp.netcom.com, in /pub/zmbenhal/ncurses, as
		1.8.5.tar.gz.
	 
== What It Does ==============================================================

	* werase()
		werase() no longer honours the current attribute for the
		window, which means that applications that set the screen
		colour by wattrset(win, attr); wclear(win); no longer work.
		
		This patch corrects the problem.

== How To Do It ==============================================================

	Unpack the ncurses 1.8.5 source code.
	
	cd <wherever you put ncurses>/ncurses-1.8.5
	patch -p1 < <wherever you put the patch>/ncurses-1.8.5-patch
	
	Then recompile and install ncurses.  As ncurses is not a shared
	library, you will need to recompile any applications (such as dialog)
	which rely on ncurses.
	
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Stuart Herbert - S.Herbert@Sheffield.ac.uk

---- this is the patch ----

--- ncurses-1.8.5/src/lib_erase.c	Mon Jan 31 23:04:09 1994
+++ ncurses-1.8.5/src/lib_erase.c	Tue Jun  7 16:10:41 1994
@@ -13,12 +13,11 @@
 #include "curses.priv.h"
 #include "terminfo.h"
 
-#define BLANK ' '
-
 int  werase(WINDOW	*win)
 {
 int	y;
 chtype	*sp, *end, *start, *maxx = NULL;
+chtype  blank = ' ' | win->_attrs;
 int	minx;
 
 	T(("werase(%x) called", win));
@@ -33,7 +32,7 @@
 		    	maxx = sp;
 		    	if (minx == _NOCHANGE)
 					minx = sp - start;
-		    	*sp = BLANK;
+		    	*sp = blank;
 	    	}
 
 	    	if (minx != _NOCHANGE) {