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- From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Help with Curses!
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 96 19:03:58 GMT
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- In article <4f5fu1$96l@fountain.mindlink.net>
- genew@mindlink.bc.ca "Gene Wirchenko" writes:
-
- >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?
-
- That isn't important. Curses is defined by an interface specification and
- the library code itself is not of interest to somebody using it. It could
- be written in assembler or PASCAL (assuming the compiler could be made to
- support the C calling sequences) but that would make no difference
- to the discussion of code that uses it.
-
- > If all in C, it's a C
- >library. If not,...
-
- It is certainly something that can be called by a C program. However Curses
- itself isn't defined by the C language.
-
- >>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*
-
- The place to discuss something is where it is well defined. Curses in general
- is well defined in Unix hence comp.unix.programmer is the most sensible
- place to discuss it (even if you aren't using a Unix platform). For issues
- regarding quirks and features of specific Curses implementations you don't
- have much choice but to post to a newsgroup for the platform that
- implementation works on.
-
- > Agreed. comp.lang.c is for issues not dealing with specific
- >implementations of C. It seems curses being multi-platform would
- >qualify.
-
- gcc is multi-platform and it does crop up in comp.lang.c discussions (usually
- in an example). However gcc isn't suitable as a primary topic for this
- newsgroup.
-
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
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