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- From: xenon@the-fix.sos.on.ca
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Help with Curses!
- Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 02:25:11 GMT
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- Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk> wrote:
-
- >In article <4eubqe$ge7@stork.qut.edu.au>
- > M.Hessling@qut.edu.au "hessling mark " writes:
-
- >>Kazimir Kylheku (c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca) wrote:
- >>: In article <4emcp8$3i5@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>,
- >>: Marcus Crafter <ccmrc@luxor.latrobe.edu.au> wrote:
- >>: >
- >>: >Hi There !
- >>: >
- >>: > I am working on writing a curses application at the moment,
- >>: > but I can't seem to set the background of a curses based window
- >>: > regardless of what I try. Here is the code that won't work as an
- >>: > application itself, all I want it to do is clear the stdscr
- >>: > window to a blue background.
- >>
- >>: This is a question for the ncurses mailing list.
- >>: --
- >>Oh dear, here we go again. This question is a valid question for
- >>comp.lang.c.
-
- >No, it isn't.
-
- >> 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.
-
- >The question is probably relevant on any platform for which you can find an
- >implementation of Curses. Curses is available on many platforms however that
- >does *not* make it a part of the C language.
-
- >> curses is a C library,
-
- >Curses is a library with a C call interface but it is not a standard C
- >library. It shares that status with POSIX.1, various other System APIs
- >(DOS, Windows, Unix etc.) and 3rd party libraries (e.g. C-ISAM or graphics
- >libraries). None of these things are defined by the C language hence have
- >any relevance to comp.lang.c.
- ^^^^^^^^^^. This does say comp.lang.c, not comp.lang.standard.c.
- Give the guy a break. You complaining isn't part of the standard C
- library either.
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