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- From: jstump@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (John E. Stump)
- Subject: New curses in the works
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:02:34 GMT
- Organization: IBM AWD Austin, TX
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- I am in the process of porting Curtis Pavel's (sp?) ncurses (also known
- as pcurses) library to Linux. Most of the work involves porting the
- sgtty interface to the termios interface. This library is more System
- V'ish than the current Linux curses. There is keypad support, etc. I
- also plan on adding color support.
-
- The stumbling block I forsee is that the package uses the terminfo
- database instead of termcap that is currently used in Linux. Although
- all the terminfo data and source needed is included in the ncurses
- package, I was wondering what the Linux users group thinks about
- terminfo.
-
- Can terminfo and termcap coexist? Is it wise? Would it be better for
- Linux to shy away from termcap and go to terminfo? Should I just modify
- the package to use termcap instead? What does POSIX say about termcap vs
- terminfo?
-
- Sorry for the deluge of questions, but I wanted to check with the group
- first.
-
- thanks
-
- john.
-
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- John Stump (auntbea.austin.ibm.com!jstump@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com)
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