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From: iverson@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Tim Iverson)
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Subject: Re: A question about the pcurses package
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Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 18:35:04 EST
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In article <18086@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> moran@yale-zoo-suned.UUCP (William Moran) writes:
>I recently ftp-ed the pcurses package which was distributed in
>mod.sources a while ago, and I now have several questions. Did anyone
>actually port this stuff to MS-DOS?

It looks like you got ahold of a copy of the port that I did.  It works,
but still has some rough spots that need to be fixed before I post (like
replacing all the terminfo stuff with termcap - the whole terminfo concept
is brain damaged and cock-eyed).

>Looking through the sources, I
>notice places where there are #ifdef MSDOS directives, but there are
>some things which I cannot believe make it on an msdos system such as
>#include-s of sgtty.h.

This is just the standard UNIX sgtty.h.  I included it just for the
structure defines - this is another of those rough spots.

> Further the make file seems to be using true
>Un*x power (something I haven't seen in too many PC c compilers). So,

I used ndmake, by Don Kneller.  Shareware & true UNIX compatibility.

>I conclude that one of the following is true:
>1) Someone had started the port and the version I have is incomplete
>2) Someone out there has a much smarter MS-DOS C compiler than I do

Just standard msc4.0, but after 3 years of porting stuff from the net
to msdos, my libraries & headers resemble unix rather more than they
did at first. :-)

The most recent version (which hasn't changed since last time) can be
ftp'd from ucbvax -> /pub/pcurses.arc.  There isn't likely to be another
more polished version for at least 6 months.  You might want to look into
pccurses; its another port of Pavel Curtis' pcurses, but to ibmpc's, not
to msdos - it uses the BIOS extensively; I can't recall finding any major
bugs in it.  Check the comp.sources.misc archives for this one.


- Tim Iverson
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