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From: finger@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Christian Finger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: What version of curses ships with HP-UX v8?
Keywords: Curses, alternate character set, HP-UX
Message-ID: <1991May14.162050.12242@ira.uka.de>
Date: 14 May 91 16:20:50 GMT
References: <1991May9.124233.1716@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
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In article <1991May9.124233.1716@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>,
lynch@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Tim Lynch) writes:
|> Can someone running version 8 of HP-UX answer this question for me?
|> 
|> Is HP-UX version 8's curses the 'new' AT&T curses?  This is the version
|> that supports alternate character sets. It is easy to ascertain whether
|> this new version is available by looking for several macro definitions
|> in /usr/include/curses.h which contain 'ACS_' (Alternate Character Set)
|> definitions.

I could not find any definition for the alternate character sets.

|> Could someone with v8 of HP-UX check this for me?

Done.

|> Thanks very much.
|> 
|> Tim Lynch                              lynch@albert.mannlib.cornell.edu
|> Mann Library
|> Cornell University
|> Ithaca, New York 14853

Ciao, Christian

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