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From: bakke@plains.NoDak.edu (Jeffrey P. Bakke)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Curses (Text Window Manager Library)
Summary: Don't jump the gun.
Message-ID: <7176@plains.NoDak.edu>
Date: 16 Dec 90 03:29:26 GMT
References: <1990Dec14.190336.2691@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1990Dec15.220718.3434@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo
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In article <1990Dec15.220718.3434@chinet.chi.il.us> john@chinet.chi.il.us (John Mundt) writes:
> In article <1990Dec14.190336.2691@sbcs.sunysb.edu> kmunn@engws7.ic.sunysb.edu (Kristofer A Munn) writes:
> >I have been working with the CURSES Window Manager on a HP-UX system here
> >at school for a few months now and have become quite fluent with it...
> >I am disappointed at the limitations the package forces upon the programmer
> >in the area of text font styles.  The only styles available are normal and
> >reversed text (using the STANDOUT() || WSTANDOUT(window) functions). 
> 
> You might become a bit more fluent with it and try the attron() and
> attroff() functions.  :-)

And YOU might want to check what curses implementation that you run on
your system.  We run SunOS 4 and if you use the BSD 4.3 compliant
compiler, you do NOT have attron/attroff + a number of other useful
functions in the curse package.  You have to specificially use
the sysV compiler.  Actually quite a pain here since the recent OS
upgrade we installed has caused the sysV curses to core dump on
initialization.... bummer...


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