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From: jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: VMS-C curses (was: VMX-C curses)
Message-ID: <1283@mhres.mh.nl>
Date: Sun, 6-Sep-87 06:42:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: mhres.1283
Posted: Sun Sep  6 06:42:21 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Sep-87 21:00:08 EDT
References: <1069@bsu-cs.UUCP> <186@genghis.UUCP> <2247@enea.UUCP>
Organization: Multihouse N.V., The Netherlands
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In article <2247@enea.UUCP> sommar@enea.UUCP(Erland Sommarskog) writes:
>Anyway, a little correction here. As far I know VAX-C curses is built on
>SMG, the modern correspondence to curses on VMS. SMG has support for 
>non-DEC terminals. You can write your own TERMTABLE.TXT describing the
>terminal you have. I guess this is just like termcap and as far as I can
>read from my VMS manual, ...

I have once spent some time to write a TERMTABLE.TXT for a Hewlett-Packard
terminal. Very soon I found out that

 a). the capabilities of SMG require the terminal to be VT100 (or ANSI)
     alike. I could not convince SMG to use zero-relative (as opposed to
     one-relative) cursor addressing, for example.

 b). no useful [:-)] VMS program used SMG.

So folks, stick to your Dec machines & Dec terminals ...

PS: I posted a Unix compatible Termcap library for VAX/VMS to comp.os.vms
     last week. It is not curses (yet...). But maybe it helps.

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