Mail Archives: djgpp/2003/02/22/11:00:51
Thomas Dickey <dickey AT saltmine DOT radix DOT net> wrote in message news:<b36gk5$7fh$2 AT news1 DOT radix DOT net>...
> Dosius <steve AT dosius DOT zzn DOT com> wrote:
>
> > I've seen programs that won't compile with PDCurses - they *require*
> > ncurses. Then again I don't know how portable ncurses is unless it's
> > forced to use Eric S. Raymond's giant termcap/terminfo database and
>
> well, if you don't _know_, reading the install instructions is probably
> preferable to posting. For instance, you can configure ncurses to
> compile-in one or more terminal descriptions, so you don't need an
> external database.
>
> for practical purposes the terminfo.src in ncurses is the official one
> anyway - the one you're referring to is almost 2 years behind the fixes
> I've made to ncurses.
doesn't matter to me, as long as it works (with Gunnar Ritter's vi,
the termcap file works fine with "set term=ansi.sys"). Then again,
the *best* way to go IMHO might be ncurses -> Borland conio (which
djgpp supports), but that might break some programs (no I/O to the
con: driver!)
>
> > "set term=ansi.sys" (btw, this is how to use Gunnar Ritter's version
> > of vi [with its own libterm] under djgpp as well).
>
> does ansi.sys run on anything newer than windoze98?
I don't know, and probably not, but you could try nnansi.com (included
with the Zork downloads)... (NANSI, on which NNANSI is based, is no
longer shareware and is now GPL'd)
-uso.
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