From: steve AT dosius DOT zzn DOT com (Dosius)
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Subject: Re: Linux compatible text dialogs?
Date: 21 Feb 2003 08:18:15 -0800
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Andrew Cottrell <andnews AT ihug DOT com DOT oz DOT au> wrote in message news:<t3ub5vk2knqec9nmp5kjohn8ggclo2vdpr AT 4ax DOT com>...
> >how does one create "graphical" text interfaces that can easily be ported
> >to/from Linux? I think that I want something like a combination of the
> >curses and dialog libs. Looking through DJGPP's package lists I found
> >dlg09 which says it needs ncurses and pdcur24 that only seems to be
> >curses. Will this combination work or are there better alternatives?
> 
> The other option for text windowing library is TV 2.01 - aka Turbo
> Vision Text windowing library originally from Borland and available
> for DJGPP, MSVC, Linux text and Linux X.
> 
> The other option is PDCurses - grab it from the developers site as the
> one in the V2Tk directory is and old version.
> 
> If you want true graphics cross platform library check out Allegro.
> 
> Andrew

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
"set term=ansi.sys" (btw, this is how to use Gunnar Ritter's version
of vi [with its own libterm] under djgpp as well).

-uso.