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From: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: unify vs curses vs terminfo
Message-ID: <293@dsinc.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 88 16:42:40 GMT
References: <228@wpg.UUCP>
Reply-To: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
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Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006
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Keywords: unify, curses, terminfo, termcap, conflicts
Summary: Unify Has Name Conflicts With Curses

In article <228@wpg.UUCP> russ@wpg.UUCP (Russell Lawrence) writes:
>I have been working on a screen handling package/application generator
>for use with the unify database manager and have run into a major snag.
>
>The unify functions for handling terminal io are based on terminfo/termcap
>routines and are incompatible with curses.  At first, I figured that wouldn't
>be a problem since I was planning on re-writing all the screen handling stuff 
>anyway.  However, I quickly discovered that some unify routines that appear to 
>be unrelated to screen management are also dependent in some byzantine 
>fashion on termcap/terminfo --- causing my own well-tested, curses-based 
>windows to royally screw-up.  
>
Unify in their infinite wisdom :-) has used some names for routines that
curses also uses.  For several clients we developed a curses library
that is compatible with Unify.  We can sell you that if you wish.

Using this library we have developed many applications using curses
instead of the unify routines.  We have had no problem at all using
curses this way and have run into no conflicts so far.  Of course it
does not allow mixing the unify i/o and curses i/o.  You still must use
one or the other.

BTW, unify uses their own TERMCAP/UNICAP file, and curses uses
terminfo, so it gets even wierder if you try to mix them.

Somewhere along the line, Unify said they would change their names to
no longer conflict, but to my knowledge they have not done so as of
yet.

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