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From: dgaulden@dcscg1.UUCP (David E. Gaulden)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Help with CURSES!
Keywords: curses
Message-ID: <592@dcscg1.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 89 11:56:30 GMT
References: <1507@hiatus.dec.com>
Reply-To: dgaulden@dcscg1.dcsc.dla.mil.UUCP (David E. Gaulden)
Organization: Defense Construction Supply Center, Columbus
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In article <1507@hiatus.dec.com> grasmann@atps.dec.com (Aspirations of a higher nature) writes:
>I have been foiled again:  CURSES!

>I thought it was aptly named, especially after it stung me more than once.  I
>am a novice to C, and the only UNIX I knew were talked about in the Bible.

>So, could anyone enlighten me?  I suspect that CURSES might be copyrighted or
>something by a Berserk layman, since I can't seem to find anything of much
>relevance...

>I need to include working code into some programs I have acquired, and the
>authors seem to have assumed that everyone would have CURSES.  Well, I do, but
>not *that* kind.

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They publish a handbook (71 pgs.) called Programming With Curses that should
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They also publish other titles of interest such as:

"Using C on the UNIX System"
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"Understanding and Using COFF"
"Managing Projects with make"
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