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Date: 7 Jan 91 11:25:43 GMT
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In article <1535@tharr.UUCP> altman@tharr.UUCP (Hugo Fiennes) writes:
>I see you mention this 'unix library' - it was also mentioned in the
>posting of nethack I believe - does this include a curses - it seemed
>to as nethack had a termcap file. I'm desperately searching for
>a curses that is NOT just for direct screen drive (eg PC-curses)
>but a *real* curses for online use with ANSI & VT100 terminals at
>the very least. Ideas?

	I have just bugfixed the unixlib I used to port nethack to the
Arch. Amongst other things it now allows all signal handlers to return
properly, which is something Acorn's Ansilib can't do. It does include
a full termcap, which works with all standard termcap entries. Curses
however lies on top of termcap/termlib and I haven't ported that yet.
(Though there are PD sources around and it wouldn't be difficult).
Various other hacks include better (faster + more reliable) stdio, better
OS interface, the proper implementation of SIGEMT, SIGSYS, SIGALRM/
alarm() and SIGERR (RiscOS errors), and better quality rand(). I will
post this next month sometime as soon as there's some doc. for it all.
Unfortunately I have too much "real" work to do right now. I also
recompiled nethack with TEXTCOLOR, so you now get the 16 color nethack
in Mode 12. If anyone wants this stuff badly, Email me. Porting GNU/SYSV
stuff generally requires no modification, just recompilation.

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