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From: greg@hoss.unl.edu (Lig Lury Jr.)
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Subject: Re: Curses on the GS
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Date: 8 Feb 91 21:02:18 GMT
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... daveh@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang) writes:

>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 :-)

Well, it may be useful for someone trying to write a BBS, and would like
to easily encode emulations for the remote user, while translating what
they see to the console screen.

>BTW, what does curses stand for?

Oh, the usual profanities.

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