Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!mucs!logitek!grep!vic From: vic@grep.co.uk (Victor Gavin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: Screen colors & terminfo trivia Message-ID: <1991May30.095028.15797@grep.co.uk> Date: 30 May 91 09:50:28 GMT References: <7667@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> Reply-To: vic@grep.co.uk (Victor Gavin) Organization: Grep Limited, LEEDS, UK Lines: 24 In article <7667@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> rbraun@spdcc.COM (Rich Braun) writes: >I want this thing to be portable across Unix platforms, and am >therefore using terminfo routine calls. But I'd like to duplicate >the "look and feel" from DOS, at least for the console terminal of >an SCO system. It appears to me that terminfo isn't powerful enough >to handle this without adding extra attributes, and I don't have >any example applications which try to do this (the source code to >'ecu' does some of this but doesn't try to go crazy with multiple >colors). I have version of CURSES for PC's which is sort-of-like System V CURSES. It definitely handles colour in a portable way, which might be a better way to go if you want proper unix/dos portability. Mail me if you're interested -- I can supply some example code which uses CURSES colour stuff if you want to have a look... vic -- Victor Gavin