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- From: John Quarterman (moderator) <ut-sally!std-unix>
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- Topic: curses, terminfo, and termcap
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- Date: Tue, 2 Jul 85 15:49:39 CDT
- From: Stan Barber <neuro1!sob@RICE.ARPA>
- Subject: curses
- Apparently-To: std-unix@ut-sally.arpa
-
- With the posting of the game "Battleship" in net.sources.games recently
- came the realization that curses is not the same on SYSVr2 and BSD.
-
- After reading the instructions on SYSVr2, I think is is more powerful than
- the Ken Arnold original. It also seems upward compartable (for the most
- part) with Ken Arnold.
-
- I am not sure if curses is considered part of the "standard", but would
- like to see some discussion of this as well as the larger issure of
- termcap vs. terminfo format for terminal capabilities.
- Stan
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- There has been recent discussion of all these things in net.unix.
- The System V Release 2 curses has apparently been extensively modified
- by Mark Horton, to do input translation, among other things. He also
- appears to be largely responsible for terminfo.
-
- The world seems to be moving from termcap to terminfo (for good reason,
- I think). There is a public domain termcap to terminfo translator.
- From: robert@gitpyr.UUCP (Robert Viduya)
- Newsgroups: net.sources
- Subject: termcap to terminfo translator
- Message-ID: <83@gitpyr.UUCP>
- Date: 30 Jan 85 20:42:01 GMT
- Organization: Georgia Tech, Atlanta
-
- A public domain version of curses and terminfo by Pavel Curtis of
- Cornell University was posted to mod.sources in December 1984.
- It appears to include most of the System V Release 2 innovations.
-
- I seem to recall that terminfo is supposed to be supplied with 4.3BSD,
- perhaps as user contributed software, but I don't remember for sure.
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