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From: vancleef@iastate.edu (Van Cleef Henry H)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Curses on OS/2?
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.180132.11571@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 26 Mar 91 18:01:32 GMT
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In article <26296@adm.brl.mil> Tony_Sikavi.ES_AE@xerox.com writes:
>Does anyone know of any implementation of the Unix (Berkley or SysV) curses
>under OS/2?  Is there something similar to it with a different name?
>//Tony

Aspen Scientific in Colorado makes a terminfo-type curses for
MS-DOS/OS2.  Available with sources for extra $$.  I have used
this product to port Unix code to MS-DOS; current version
is quite stable, easy port.  They use an environment variable
to select direct access, ansi.sys, bios screen writes at execution
time.  No terminfo description files; these are "canned" in the 
runtime.  Comes with a package called FAST in c source that can be
used to set up simple forms data bases---the routines are also handy
for modification and inclusion in programs---particularly one that
edits an input dialog line.  Documentation for routines is excellent,
but they don't provide a curses tutorial.  The Aspen Curses package
is also available for VMS---much superior to the DEC version in VMS
C.  

Aspen also makes a window management product called FORMATION, also
available in source code, also portable to many platforms with
terminfo curses.  

Lattice also offers a Curses package, a partial implementation 
of termcap curses.  However, it does not have a termcap file
or the lower-level curses functions.  Available with source.



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