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From: sewilco@mecc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: curses replacement
Message-ID: <645@mecc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Oct-86 00:00:36 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 23 00:00:36 1986
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Reply-To: sewilco@mecc.UUCP (Scot E. Wilcoxon)
Organization: MN Ed Comp Corp, St Paul, MN
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In article <7114@boring.mcvax.UUCP> guido@boring.uucp (Guido van Rossum) writes:
>In an article over two weeks old, I mentioned that I had a "replacement
>for curses" and was willing to offer the source.  Some replies arrived,
...
>P.S.: the announcement was in the first place intended to start a
>discussion about the ideal interface for such a package.  I received 0
>(zero, nil, null, NO) reponses.  Is nobody here interested in improving
>the world anymore, only in grabbing what they can?

The latest issue of DATAMATION mentions ANSI, Sun, and DEC each pushing
window interfaces (which are a generalization of the 'curses' concept).
On the net side, the job control discussion in mod.std.unix has split
off a windowing discussion.  [Details submitted to mod.std.unix]

People ARE trying to improve the world.  But the windowers want it to
be perfect. :-)  Until it is, I appreciate practical tools such as yours.
(And I'll be updating some such tools on the real computer due soon, instead
of this Lisa XENIX without flexnames)
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