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Date:	Thu, 18 May 2000 14:57:56 -0400
From:	Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
To:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: NCurses-5.0
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In-Reply-To:	<20000518185546.12950.qmail@web106.yahoomail.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Thu, May 18, 2000 at 11:55:46AM -0700

On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 11:55:46AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>--- Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
>> This should probably go into latest.  I don't suppose you want to be
>> the ncurses maintainer?
>
>I was hoping for that.  Charles Wilson is already distributing ncurses and
>since he's already moving things in to maintain would probably be the one to
>maintain it.  I received a personal note from him, thanking me for the install
>fix.  I think he also has it building as a dll.

Ok.  Great.  I appreciate your doing "due diligence" on this.

>One of the things I meant to mention was that the testscanw doesn't work at
>all.  It doesn't matter what the TERM setting is.

Hmm.  Maybe Charles will have some insight into this.  I know that
Cygwin's console handling code is not great and probably deserves to be
rewritten.

cgf

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