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> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 10:39:28 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Hannes Domani <ssbssa@yahoo.de>
> Cc: cbiesinger@google.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org, brobecker@adacore.com, 
> 	tromey@adacore.com
> 
> > > I never had this kind of problem on Windows 10, probably because I use
> > > pdcurses instead of ncurses.
> >
> >
> > Are your command prompt windows working in the native mode or in
> > legacy mode?
> >
> > If this is specific to ncurses, maybe we should ask Thom Dickey to
> > investigate this.
> 
> I actually didn't know about legacy/native mode until you mentioned it.
> And I checked now, I'm using native mode.

Thanks.

It is strange that one version of curses triggers the problem while
another doesn't.  I guess one needs to look at the low-level code used
by ncurses to access the Windows console device.