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From: wilber@nunki.usc.edu (John Wilber)
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Subject: Re: Graphic characters in Norton Utilities SYS-V
Summary: Norton Utilities Video
Keywords: Norton Utilities, graphic characters
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Date: 31 Jul 90 08:36:23 GMT
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In article <1990Jul30.181330.3855@pegasus.com> richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:

>I certainly hope other developers don't follow suite.  This sort of
>gratuitous, DOS-style, system dependency is what the "open-systems"
>movement has been seeking to avoid.  What Unix seeks to avoid.

Perhaps you are under a misconception.  Norton Utilities for System V 
doesn't JUST use direct I/O, it speaks curses/terminfo too.  We just do the 
best with the equipment available.  If you are on a terminal things work
just fine, if you are on the console, things work even finer.  It's 
plenty open as far as I am concerned.