I tried the ipmode program out, and everything seems to work ok, until the password entry. Sometimes I am not even finished typing the password in, and the program quits on me. But more importantly, once I enter the password, and hit <ENTER>, nothing displays, and the program ends. I thought maybe it was something I did (as I modified the program a little to suit my own tastes), but when I downloaded and compiled the source from the WROX site, I found it had the same problem too. I don't see any problems while running it through the debugger either.

Anyone else have this trouble?

I am running ncurses on Gentoo on an AMD Athlon64 machine with gcc 3.4.3-r1

I am running ncurses on Fedora 3 on an Intel Centrino machine with gcc 3.4.4-2.fc3

I have some little opinion, maybe helpful.

First, I think you should look up the manual for the function of "getch()". Maybe there is some restriction on "gentoo"??

Or you can try to update you gcc and other system programs.

Last maybe it was caused by the AMD processor. But I have no idea for this reason.
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I am just a new Linux user. ^^

The problem may be that it prints "Correct" or "Wrong" to the screen then immediately exits. Try adding something so you regain control of when it exits. Something like

#define FOO_LEN 25

    char foo[FOO_LEN];

/* Then, down at the end, after this */
    move(11, 10);
    if (strcmp(password, real_password) == 0) printw("%s", "Correct");
    else printw("%s", "Wrong");
    refresh();

/* add this */
    move(13, 10);
    printw("%s", "exit?");
    getstr(foo);

    endwin();
    exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);


Then you can see it and hit "Enter" to exit.

Yeah, that seems to work. Cool.