From: zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim) Subject: Re: Curses Project Date: 3 Aug 1992 09:19:49 GMT
In article <1992Aug3.003752.7107@athena.mit.edu> f6930910@scheme.cs.ubc.ca writes:
>Hi. There has been a long discussion on curses in the linux mailing list
>over the past few weeks. The curses that come with hlu's libraries
>are vanilla Berkeley Curses - no SYSV stuff. Presently I am working
>on a SYSV compatible curses for Linux. I was really hoping that the
>general Linux community wouldn't notice the current curses' problems and
>limitations until after I had finished the new curses (no one noticed
>for so long :-). These limitations were my motivation for a new curses.
>
>I am aware of ncurses (aka pcurses), and know someone has posted it
>to banjo. If you are truely desperate for a SYSV curses NOW, it should
>be okay. I had ported ncurses to Linux a few weeks ago, but didn't
>post it because I don't think it is fit to replace Berkeley's curses,
>and I didn't want to see several flavours of curses floating around.
>The Minix community has a port of 'pccurses' (yet another curses).
^^^^^^^^
This is actually ncurses ported to MSDOS (no terminfo and support for graphic
characters) and then ported back to minix.
Zeyd