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From: vacca@burdvax.UUCP (Dave Vacca)
Newsgroups: net.graphics
Subject: Questions about curses
Message-ID: <1966@burdvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Mar-85 19:25:37 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 15 19:25:37 1985
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     I am currently working on a graphics program based on curses.  Is this
a good idea or should I be using something other than curses?  What I am worried
about is portability.  Also, what is the proper way to handle native control 
sequences for a particular terminal using curses?  If I am drawing lines on a
terminal, then when I attempt to run this same program on a completely different
type of terminal, how will I even know whether or not the same line-drawing
feature exists?  I guess curses is necessarily limited in this way.

     Also, do the new bit-mapped terminals make the curses package
obselete? And if they do, is there a graphics package being worked on
that allows for the same type of portability for bit-mapped terminals that
curses provides for fixed character set terminals?

                      - Signed, 

                          Mr. Puzzled