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Subject: Re: Questions about curses
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Date: Sun, 17-Mar-85 13:07:20 EST
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>      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?

There are a few curses-type graphics packages available, including
MFB, which was written here for use with CAD tools, and X, which is
being written at MIT by Jim Gettys. I guess that the problem is that
there are too many of them for one to be sure that one's programs won't
have to be converted to use another sometime in the future. Here is a
question for people who know more about this than I do: what is the
best graphics package of this type that you have seen or used, and
which do you think has the best chance now of becoming a standard like
curses?

	Wayne