From: Thomas Dickey <dickey AT saltmine DOT radix DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Linux compatible text dialogs?
Date: 22 Feb 2003 00:35:17 GMT
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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.

> "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?

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