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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,alt.religion.computers
Subject: Re: A3000UX competition
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Date: 10 Dec 90 03:29:57 GMT
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In article <BZS.90Dec8172930@world.std.com> bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
> Look at the manual page (I'll send it to you if you like.) I think
> you'll quickly see it's impossible to support the view that SYSV
> curses is only trivially improved over BSD curses.

I didn't say that. System V curses/terminfo does indeed have lots more
features than BSD curses/termcap. But that System V fanatic was accusing
BSD of missing basic features which have been around for years. Somehow
I don't really care about the infinite pile of frills in System V.

---Dan