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- From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
- Subject: Re: Where am I going wrong????
- References: <1992Aug17.082023.13914@stortek.com> <1992Aug17.093809.24122@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <1992Aug17.190209.8650@njitgw.njit.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:41:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.224108.19968@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- In article <1992Aug17.190209.8650@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug17.093809.24122@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel) writes:
- >>Yes it looks like this. Remember, if OS/2 is ported to a RISC, it would
- >>not have a concept like the PC screen buffer, so the VIO/MOU/KBD calls
- >>are useless.
- >>
- >>Part of the work can be done with 32-bit IOCtl calls, for the rest you
- >>have to call 16-bit API's on PC's.
- >
- >This is the way it's done under Unix and other systems, as well.
- >That's why some enterprising programmers wrote the curses package. I
- >wonder when this'll be ported to OS/2.
-
- BSD curses is part of emx/g++. I mean *C* curses, not C++ curses only.
- BSD curses is included in emx/g++, because there is a class CursesW in
- libg++ that relies on the C curses library. It may be a bit buggy, but
- you can fix that.
-
- Kai Uwe Rommel
-
- /* Kai Uwe Rommel --- rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de */
-
- DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
- handler, and always will be. -Russell Williams
-
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