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- From: genew@mindlink.bc.ca (Gene Wirchenko)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Help with Curses!
- Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 17:46:51 GMT
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- The Amorphous Mass <robinson@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> wrote:
-
- >On 3 Feb 1996, hessling mark wrote:
-
- >> Oh dear, here we go again. This question is a valid question for
- >> comp.lang.c. The question is equally valid if Marcus was asking the
- >> same question and was using the supplied curses on Solaris or was
- >> using PDCurses under DOS or OS/2. curses is a C library, hence it
- >> should be discussed here, just like questions about signal() or other
- >> C funcion calls.
-
- > When did curses become a C library? It's a unix library that's been
-
- What language is curses written in? If all in C, it's a C
- library. If not,...
-
- >ported to an impressive number of platforms, but there's nothing anywhere
- >that requires a C compiler to support it, and some (notably those written
- >for GUIs) don't.
- > Having said that I'm not really sure where it _should_ be discussed.
- >Platform-specific groups are the obvious answer, but seem unsatisfactory
- >considering that curses is fairly portable. *shrug*
-
- Agreed. comp.lang.c is for issues not dealing with specific
- implementations of C. It seems curses being multi-platform would
- qualify.
-
- > --James Robinson (robinson@cs.uiowa.edu -or- james-robinson@uiowa.edu)
- >/* Indeed, C++ is a bit of an oddball of a language ... given the way that *
- > * it requires private parts to be visible. This increases the strength of *
- > * coupling dramatically... -- Dr. Rich Artym */
-
- Such a lovely sig.
-
- Sincerely,
-
- Gene Wirchenko
-
- C Pronunciation Guide:
- y=x++; "wye equals ex plus plus semicolon"
- x=x++; "ex equals ex doublecross semicolon"
-
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