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Path: digifix!not-for-mail From: Thomas Funke <thf@zelator.in-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: SUBMISSION: Sys-V compat. curses package submitted Date: 24 Oct 1993 22:40:53 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Lines: 32 Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2afebl$1r6@digifix.digifix.com> A dream comes true: NOW, you can forget all those fancy windowservers. Stop programming NeXTSTEP or X-Windows ! Use the industry standard ! Expensive database tools come with vt100 tools. So why not follow them ? Drag and drop, point and click, etc. etc.: Who needs this ? The IBM world still consists of green terminals ... But to be able to do real tty-programming, you need 'curses'. No, not this dumb old BSD-curses which NeXT stole from Berkley. You need System-V curses: Available on almost all Unix-machines, but not on NeXT - until now. It has many advantages over BSD-curses: Several screens, many colors and other modes, input-functions: \e[A will be a cursor-key, not a silly escape sequence as it is in BSD. Now you can have it. For FREE !! I have submitted 'ncurses-18.tar.gz' to sonata.cc.purdue.edu (pub/next/submissions) and also cs.orst.edu I hacked it from a recent copy for Linux. Of course you get all sources. Typing 'make' is still left as an exercise to the reader. AND: Read the README's. BTW: A good book about curses is published by O'Reilly. So no need to ask me questions like "My screen doesn't refresh, what can I do?" BTW2: If someone has a script to transform termcap->terminfo, please tell me. It's probably an easy awk-hack ...
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