ANSI terminal issues

[Pradeep Padala]

Hi,
   A user who read my howto wrote to me about this. I don't know the
answer to this question. If you know, please answer. His mail follows..

--pradeep


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I just found your ncurses howto on the web, so I though you must be
familiar in it.
I wanted to compile a really small program, then I've got a problem.
Perhaps you could use my experiences.... so

#include <ncurses.h>

int main()
{
        initscr();                      /* Start curses mode */

        printw("Hello World !!! (%08x) (%8s)",1,"00000001");
        refresh();                      /* Print it on to the realscreen */
        getch();                        /* Wait for user input */
        endwin();                       /* End curses mode */

        return 0;
}

step #1. export TERM=ansi
I set the terminal to ansi,  and the result is:

Hello World !!! (01) (01)

Seems the leading zeros just vanished. Do you have any idea, why?

step #2. export TERM=vt100
With the vt100 works fine:

Hello World !!! (00000001) (00000001)

step #3. export TERM=xterm-color
Same, works:

Hello World !!! (00000001) (00000001)


I realy do not know why this is. But interesting.

Regards,
  Jozsef Laszlo
  PSINet ETC,
  Switzerland

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