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From: kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl (Pieter Kunst)
Subject: Re: Curses
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Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 07:31:21 GMT
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In article <DFvDuq DOT 900 AT jade DOT mv DOT net> "Nathan L. Cutler" <library AT ms DOT anet DOT cz> writes:
> I've been trying to port a C program I wrote on SCO Unix that uses 
> Curses to my PC running djgpp.  I downloaded the Curses library but it 
> doesn't seem to integrate smoothly with djgpp.  I'm also having troubles 
> linking.  There seems to be a complete dearth of documentation on the 
> Curses library.  Has anybody used Curses with djgpp?

There are two versions of the curses library available for DJGPP.
The oldest one can be found in 'aecur102.zip'. I guess you used this
version in your trials, because the second version, in 'pdcurs22.zip'
comes with 60+ pages documentation.
There are a couple of demos supplied with this PDCurses version
which should compile and link straight away using the makefiles.

The only complaint I heard about this version is some minor macro bug
(MK_FP) when used with DJGPP V2 (beta). With DJGPP V1 all works well,
including DOS programs using curses inside Windows DOS boxes.

Pieter Kunst (kunst AT natlab DOT research DOT philips DOT com)