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AMIGA CURSES PACKAGE V1.20
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Author : Simon John Raybould (sie@fulcrum.bt.co.uk)
Date : 2nd December 1990
This code is freely distributable as long as all of the files supplied
are included in the distribution.
I am including the source so that users other than Lattice may benifit
from this package. Please DO NOT CHANGE THE SOURCE inform me of any bugs you
want fixing and it shall be done - FAST.
DO NOT DISRTRIBUTE AN ALTERED COPY OF THIS CODE TELL ME IF YOU WANT
SOMETHING FIXING OR CHANGING IN THE SOURCE AND I WILL DO IT AND
INCLUDE IT IN FUTURE RELEASES, YOU'LL EVEN GET A MENTION IN THE
HISTORY FILE AS BEING INVOLVED IN ITS HISTORY!
I ASK FOR NO MONEY THIS STUFF IS TOTALLY FREE GRATIS FOR NOTHING GIVE
IT TO WHOEVER WANTS IT BUT DONT CHARGE THEM FOR THE SOFTWARE, YOU MAY
CHARGE FOR YOUR TIME AND EFFORT IN COPYING, YOU MAY ALSO CHARGE FOR
ANY MEDIA USED.
This package is mainly aimed at people who wish to port screen based UN*X
applications to the Amiga. I have written a brief documentation file but I
assume that such people have access to full curses documentation. I have no
intention of re-writing the Curses documentation as this would be of little
or no use to people because documentation is generally available at book
stores.
I hope this is the package people have been waiting for on the Amiga
and would like to make this the best PD curses package available. So please
report bugs to me.
To use this, include curses.h at the top of your code instead of stdio.h
(curses.h will include stdio.h). Compile as normal and when linking, link in
the library 'curses.lib'. 'curses.h' should be installed in the same
directory as 'stdio.h' (INCLUDE:) with lattice V5. 'curses.lib' should be
in the same directory as 'lc.lib' or 'c.lib' (LIB:) with lattice V5.
This code was compiled under Lattice C V5.05. It should work O.K. with
all Lattice setups and I hope with Aztec too.
I have not tested with Aztec as I don't have a copy.
NOTE
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The curses library should be linked in before all other libraries on
the link line.
EXAMPLE
=======
blink lib:c.o foo.o TO foo LIB lib:curses.lib+lib:lc.lib+lib:amiga.lib
Thanks
======
I feel I must thank certain people for their help in the improvement of
this package from which we all stand to gain. Without their suggestions, the
development of this package would have been significantly slower, Thanks.
Michael Fischer - For finding many bugs in the first alpha of curses and
continued bug finding and suggestions. Thanks Mike!
Phil Kernick - For his excellent suggestions for improvements.
Kai Vorma - For suggestions, bug reports e.t.c.
Any bugs, suggestions, e.t.c. email to 'sie@fulcrum.bt.co.uk'
Cheers,
Simon J Raybould