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From: denault@hale.ifa.hawaii.edu (Tony Denault)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Need Help with curses
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Date: 7 Feb 91 03:56:33 GMT
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Organization: Institute For Astronomy, Hawaii
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I trying to write an application using the curses library (for
the first time). My application will fork & exec two process.
One will use curses to output on a 80 by 22 cell window. 
The other will accept key strokes and output on an 80 by 2 window. 
My terminal size is 80 by 24. Basicly I want to divide the screen
into 2 parts.

I think each application will need to create a stdscr of 80 by 24
and then create a sub-windows & position is sub-window correctly.
Is this the way for two processes can share the screen?

How can I prevent the cursor from jumping around while the user is 
type when another process is updating the screen?

Thanks

Tony D.
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