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From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Looking for patches to PD Curses from mod.sources
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Date: Sun, 24-May-87 02:16:43 EDT
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> BTW, sys5 terminfo looks suspiciously like Curtis's terminfo.

As far as I know, it isn't.  It's more like Mark Horton and others' terminfo
(Tony Hansen's name is attached to a number of the pieces, and other
names appear there as well - I guess what seems to be the AT&T
corporate policy of anonymity for developers seems not to have been
applied here).

However, the S5R3 terminfo compiler *is* Curtis's terminfo compiler.
If Curtis's terminfo was developed after Horton's, I suspect he
deliberately tried to make the database format the same.

> (There's even a tstp.o (empty)!)  Even more interesting is that the
> manual talks about job control....

Naah, not all that interesting.  I believe Horton originally
developed it under 4.1BSD, which does have job control.  There are
all sorts of bits floating in curses to support various flavors of
UNIX.  (One system the job control stuff *doesn't* support, BTW, is
4.2BSD; it still thinks that if you install a signal handler as the
signal action with "signal", the signal action gets reset to SIG_DFL
when the signal occurs.)
	Guy Harris
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