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- From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: Help with Curses!
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 96 15:51:48 GMT
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- In article <4fe9ig$9uh@fohnix.metronet.com>
- milam@fohnix.metronet.com "Stan Milam" writes:
-
- >: It is certainly something that can be called by a C program. However Curses
- >: itself isn't defined by the C language.
- >
- >Certainly not, but it is used almost exclusively by C programmers.
-
- Most if not all 3rd party libraries with C function call interface
- specifications are used almost exclusively by C programmers. That does
- not make them relevant to comp.lang.c.
-
- >
- >: 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).
-
- >Why? I have CURSES programs that work on MS-DOS, AIX, HPUX, and OS/2. CURSES
- >started on UNIX, but so did C.
-
- The difference is that this newsgroup is about C, not about Curses.
-
- > Now there is a CURSES port for almost any
- >character based OS. A portable language, a portable character based windowing
- >system written in the portable language. Sounds good to me.
-
- Yes it is certainly good. It is just that comp.lang.c is the wrong place
- to discuss it.
-
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- Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
- Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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