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From: john@jwt.UUCP (John Temples)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Screen colors & terminfo trivia
Message-ID: <5+9+QAD@jwt.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 91 05:42:33 GMT
References: <7667@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> <1991May30.095028.15797@grep.co.uk>
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In article <1991May30.095028.15797@grep.co.uk> vic@grep.co.uk (Victor Gavin) writes:
>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.

I'd like to see a curses-compatible library which writes directly to
the video memory if you're at the console.  Curses applications at the
console are far too sluggish.
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John W. Temples -- john@jwt.UUCP (uunet!jwt!john)