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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Clearing the screen in elm
Keywords: elm
Message-ID: <1990Aug9.214006.18037@DSI.COM>
Date: 9 Aug 90 21:40:06 GMT
References: <244@malathion> <1990Aug7.164242.11518@DSI.COM> <488@calvin.UUCP>
Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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craig@calvin.UUCP (Craig S. Cochran) writes:

:In article <1990Aug7.164242.11518@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM writes:
:>We had planned to go to a real curses a while back, but couldn't
:>really get a portable set of curses routines working, so we punted it.
:>(too many bugs in too many manf. curses packages).

:Hmm.  It's unfortunate that this effort was scrubbed.  Using a
:system-supplied curses would solve many problems, such as this
:screen-clearing issue.

:Might I suggest that we add a Configure option to use the system-supplied
:curses and let the system administrator decide which works best?
Won't work, the going to curses was going to be a complete rewrite
of the screen stuff.  The internal stuff is really just terminfo/termcap
routines.  Its not compatible, nor is it really using curses.

Again, if it was that easy, we would have done it.  Its a shame.
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