From: rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org (Felix S. Gallo) Subject: Re: Can you access a virtual console directly? Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 20:31:09 GMT
billp@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (Bill Parquet) writes:
>It might be helpful if there was some sort of library for screen mainten-
>ance. Instead of directly manipulating the screen, it would translate
>function calls into termcap codes. Maybe something like borlands turbo-
>vision, only not nearly so elaborate.
It's called 'curses', as in 'man 3 curses', and it's buggy and very
slow in many if not most implementations.
termcap/termlib is probably the best way to do things, because it
doesn't make really bad assumptions like curses does. Linux uses
termcap currently -- which is a bit odd, considering that most
sys-vish systems are now using termlib.
>(If I could clone myself maybe 3 or 4 times, I would probably have enough
>time to program all my ideas!)
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