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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Re: Curses Package
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Date: Tue, 26-Nov-85 09:10:13 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 26 09:10:13 1985
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> > Does anyone know where one could get some good documentation
> > on how to use the curses package ?
> 
> UNIX System V Programming Guide (select no. 307-103)

	The AT&T UNIX System V Terminal Information Utilities Guide (select
code 305-424) is less worse than the above.  Both of the above publications
still leave a number of questions to be answered solely by trial and error
on the part of the programmer.
	Also, beware of bugs...  Like, on the 3B2 a call to echo() is NOT
effectual when using wgetstr(), mvwgetstr(), wscanw(), and mvwscanw(); i.e.,
there is no way for characters to be echoed when using the above functions.
echo() and noecho() DO work for getch(), wgetch(), and mvwgetch(), which
most people probably use anyhow.

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