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From: jls2@spdcc.COM (Jeff Stoner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: System V Curses
Message-ID: <3859@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 29 Aug 90 21:37:39 GMT
Reply-To: jls2@ellery.esi.COM
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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We are working with both DECstation 3100's and Sun Sparc-1's running Ultrix
2.2UWS and SunOS 4.0.3c, respectively, on an application program that uses
CURSES for screen manipulation.

On the Sun, we discovered a second implementation of CURSES that includes
something called the "Alternate Character Set" for doing VT100 line draw
characters. A couple examples of characters are ACS_HLINE and ACS_VLINE
from the file /usr/5include/curses.h (the library is /usr/5lib/libcurses.a).
This is labelled as "System V curses".

This library nicely solves some "ugliness" of our screen layout (pluses and
dashes become lines!) and we very much want to do the same on the 3100's.
From what I can tell of Ultrix 4.0 on a friend's 3100, it's not included there
(am upgrading to 4.0 this weekend).

Does anyone have an implementation of System V curses that includes this
"ACS" for a DECstation 3100 or know where I could get such?

Thanks!

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