From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: grant@antiflux.org (Grant Hollingworth)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:15:01 -0500
Subject: [sup-talk] Exception on start up
In-Reply-To: <2F2233F8-7973-4157-A6B8-600502AD6D6F@kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
References: <2F2233F8-7973-4157-A6B8-600502AD6D6F@kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp>
Message-ID: <1196348740-sup-7327@spooky.local>

Excerpts from Alex Gutteridge's message of Wed Nov 28 20:49:34 -0500 2007:
> All the ncurses examples run, but not in color, so there's clearly  
> something going wrong with OSX or my terminal. Curses wont initialize  
> any color pair, so it's seems to be a problem with curses on OSX not  
> sup.
> 
> irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> require 'curses'
> => true
> irb(main):003:0> require 'ncurses'
> => true
> irb(main):004:0> Curses.init_pair 1, -1, -1
> => false
> irb(main):005:0> Curses.init_pair 1, Curses::COLOR_WHITE,  
> Curses::COLOR_BLACK
> => false

Sup works for me, in colour, in Terminal.app. $TERM is set to xterm-color. I'm using ncurses 5.6 from MacPorts.

I get the same results as you in irb. Does curses normally work there?