Date:	Thu, 10 Aug 2000 08:46:26 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Matt Lewandowsky <matt DOT l AT techie DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Uh oh. Another newbie. (Sorta...)
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On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Matt Lewandowsky wrote:

> I'm kinda amazed theres no termcap/terminfo support under DJGPP... 

This is true.  No one was motivated enough to write such support,
although it would be easy enough to do, now that we have termios
emulation.

Please feel free to fill the void ;-)  If you need help and guidance,
please send your questions to djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, the DJGPP
developers' mailing list.

> Are there any compatible implementations I could build? (I didn't find 
> anything in the FAQ about this, either. I guess I'm just having more 
> problems than anyone should...)

The usual practice when porting programs which rely on termcap is to
modify the code to use direct screen I/O.  Some examples of this
approach can be found in ports of Info (in the Texinfo distribution),
and in the Readline library.

Also, there's GNU termcap, but I don't think it will work with DJGPP
without some porting.  It might get you through the configure and
build stages, though, if you download and compile it, even without
changing the original code.

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