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From: david@varian.UUCP (David Brown)
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Subject: Re: Curses in IBM Xenix?
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Date: Mon, 13-May-85 17:30:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 13 17:30:02 1985
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> Does anyone know if the IBM blessed Xenix release for the AT contains
> Curses as one of the Berkeley enhancements?  I've tried contacting
> IBM but no one there seems to know.  They can't even get a copy of
> Xenix or at least the manuals to check for me .
> 
> While I'm at it, what Berkeley enhancements does it support besides
> csh.

Yes, curses is there (for both the small and large models) for Xenix.
However, there is no libcurses for the DOS cross environment -- I
suppose you would need to rewrite termlib for a PC monitor.  The programs
that I tried that used curses worked on the console (a monochrome monitor)
but failed on a TeleVideo 912 -- it turned out the termcap entry for the
tvi912 was too large.  When I trimmed the termcap entry, my curses programs
worked.

I also tried compiling the curses source from our VAX -- it failed because
printw() calls doprnt(), which is not a user-accessible routine in Xenix.

Other Berkeley enhancements I've noticed:
	vi (to use view, you need to create the link yourself:
			ln /bin/vi /bin/view)
	more
	strings
	enhanced ls (called lc) - multi-column, recursive, etc.

A visual shell called vsh is supplied, but it is not related to the
Berkeley vsh.

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