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From: kpv@ulysses.att.com (Phong Vo[drew])
Newsgroups: comp.unix
Subject: Re: curses standout()
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Date: 10 Oct 90 23:30:08 GMT
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In article <2128@megadon.UUCP>, peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
: In article <3653@zorba.Tynan.COM> uunet!ncoast.ORG!allbery (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:
: > Curses was written for ANSI X3.64 terminals, however
: 
: Minor nitpick... curses was written "for" adm3a, hp2621, and h19 terminals
: Peter da Silva.   `-_-'

Maybe I lost some early part of the thread, but curses,
at least the one that I wrote (SysVr3.2 or later), is for all
character terminals that can place the cursor at a random point on the screen.
It handles video attributes for all the HP26* and TVI* terminals
efficiently and correctly (as correct as possible for the TVI-variety).
It also knows about multi-byte/multi-column characters (Japanese, Chinese).
	Phong Vo, att!ulysses!kpv