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From: djna1@hpopd.HP.COM (Dave Artus)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Looking for Screen Management Package (for DOS and UNIX)
Message-ID: <4080004@hpopd.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Jun 89 12:13:17 GMT
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/ hpopd:comp.lang.c / djna1@hpopd.HP.COM (Dave Artus) /  1:05 pm  Jun 15, 1989 /
In article <12079@well.UUCP> rchao@well.UUCP (Robert Chao) writes:
>
>I am developing a piece of software, and am looking for a screen manager
>package of utilities. I'd like to be able to do this for DOS and then
>port it over to UNIX. Does anyone have an recommendations?
>

We're using JAM, which appears to be available on a number of platforms
including DOS and various unices.

We found it to be more appropriate than curses for our applications. Top of
our wish list would be a documented method of dynamically altering screen
formats at run-time. This would permit us to cope more easily with running
in windows of various sizes.