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From: daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Curses on the GS
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Date: 31 Jan 91 14:59:20 GMT
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In article <430@generic.UUCP> taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao) writes:
>From herwin@pro-novapple.cts.com (Harry Erwin):
>
>> I have been working on writing a GS version of curses.
>
>    For us non-UNIX types, could you tell us what exactly is "curses"???

Curses is a generic terminal driver type of thing. It finds out what terminal
you have and will send the right commands to the terminal, so your program
can be terminal-independent. So, if you want to clear the screen, just tell
curses that and it'll do it for you. I think the main reason for porting this
to the GS is so that C progs can be ported without much modification, right?
After all, there is only one kind of terminal hooked up to a GS :-)

BTW, what does curses stand for?

>Brian T. Tao  {taob@pnet91.cts.com} ||  Computer guru?  Someone who got
>University of Metro Toronto         ||  their computer a couple of weeks
>Scarberia, ON, MIC 3A8         *B-) ||  before you did.  (Alvin Toffler)


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