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From: dan@prairie.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: vc/sc vs. S5 curses
Message-ID: <416@prairie.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Feb-87 10:21:48 EST
Article-I.D.: prairie.416
Posted: Fri Feb  6 10:21:48 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Feb-87 19:36:16 EST
References: <821@maynard.BSW.COM> <3731@teddy.UUCP> <279@houxa.UUCP>
Reply-To: dan@prairie.UUCP (Daniel M. Frank)
Organization: Prairie Computing, Madison, Wisconsin
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Keywords: curses termlib S5

In article <279@houxa.UUCP> grs@houxa.UUCP (G.SILLS) writes:
>vi DOES use curses on SYS V.  ... jove currently posted in mod.sources
>seems to as well.

   No.  They both use the termcap emulation in terminfo.  Terminfo happens
to reside in libcurses.a.  Both vi and jove have a lot of their own code
to manage the screen.

>At some point I guess I'll have to debug ansi (Multiport refuses to do it), 
>unless someone out there has already done it.

   Microport doesn't "refuse to do this".  It has been done, along with a
redesign of the ansi console driver, in version 1.3.8, which will be
along Any Time Now.  In the meantime, several people have posted solutions
to the problem, so you don't have to debug anything.

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