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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: BSD 4.3 Curses and scrolling
Keywords: curses scrolling insert delete
Message-ID: <10886@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 1 Apr 88 05:17:54 GMT
References: <573@io.UUCP> <7600@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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>In article <573@io.UUCP> lee (Lee Kamentsky) writes:
>>As far as I can tell, my copy of the "curses" library (BSD 4.3
>>distributed by Sun) doesn't take advantage of the insert or
>>delete line features of terminals.

[N.B.: Sun releases are not based on 4.3BSD.  At best SunOS 3.5 has
many of the 4.3BSD fixes/improvements in it, but it still has some
4.2BSD-based code.  It also has some SysV based code, though which
SysV release I cannot say.]

In article <7600@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>Check that the al, dl, AL, DL capabilities are present in your
>/etc/termcap.

Whichever SunOS he is running may have the 4.2/4.3BSD curses library,
which does not do line insert and delete (this was one reason I wrote
my own window management library, back in 1981 or 1982 or so).  Mark
Horton's newer curses, which is part of at least some releases of SysV,
does.  (This is one of those few things that I would agree are `vastly
superiour' in SysVR?.)
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