From: kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl (Pieter Kunst)
Subject: Re: curses
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJGPP users list)
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 16:21:40 MET
Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.30]


Shumate Jason writes:
>
> In another post, Alan Etheridge talked about his version of curses for DJGPP.
> No offense intended, but I always thought the best bet would be to get PD
> Curses to work under DJGPP, no small undertaking.  I tried once to port it
> myself and had lots of problems.

> I see that some kind soul has posted diffs
> to enable us DJGPP users to use it, so I would recommmend trying that for
> people who need Sys V curses compatibility.

I couldn't agree more. Most of the problems encountered are
deviations of SysV curses from BSD curses.

> I was able to get PC Curses 1.4
> to work with DJGPP, but PD Curses 2.0 is much nicer, having color support and
> a few other goodies.  For those who don't know, PD Curses supports most BSD
> and SysV curses commands.

This sounds very interesting indeed.
David Nugent did the port already, so all we need is something like
dncurses.zip in the contrib section :-)

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Pieter Kunst (kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl)