ITEM: W5982L

Problem with sysback restoring data, error 1820-038

Env:
  AIX 3.2.5
  sysback ver 3.2.1.30

Desc:
  Customer is trying to restore a file from a full system sysback backup
  and the customer is choosing to build a file list first.  He gets 
  this error message about 6 minutes into the build of the file list.

1820-038: internal error: error in call to libcur/libcurses at line 283
1820-038: internal error: error in call to libcur/libcurses @ line 2886
The screen now seem all messed up.  The customer stated he had to
log out then back in to fix it.

Action:
  There is a 32K limit on the number of lines that can sent to the
  ascii smit.  Can't be fixed in AIX 3.2 or 4.1, due to the fact that 
  the problem exist in the libcurses libs and a fix would require all 
  users of curses to recompile their curses programs.  

  WORK AROUNDS:
   If your heart is set on using smit
     1.  Don't build the filelist, just type in the files 
     2.  Use msmit (motif smit)

  Or from the command line use the sysrestore command

  Also the new release of sysback 3.3 has a method to shorten
  the list of files to keep the user from passing the 32k limit

Next Action:
  Closing call




Support Line: Problem with sysback restoring data, error 1820-038 ITEM: W5982L

Dated: July 1995 Category: N/A

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