Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!unido!sbsvax!greim
From: greim@sbsvax.UUCP (Michael Greim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: RE: BSD 4.3 curses and scrolling
Message-ID: <473@sbsvax.UUCP>
Date: 7 Apr 88 11:00:24 GMT
Organization: Universitaet des Saarlandes, D-6600 Saarbruecken, FRG
Lines: 39
Keywords: curses scrolling insert delete


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.

In article <10886@mimsy.UUCP> Chris Torek writes
>>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?.)

I have written a window management package based on source code of
curses too.

Curses' inability to scroll (subwindows, part of windows) was one of
the things which I tackled. My package is still in its infancy, but
we here find it more useful and versatile than 4.3BSD curses. 
As soon as I reach an agreement with AT&T on distribution I intend
to post it to the net, or at least announce its availability for
normal package costs. Only after I got an OK from AT&T for some
form of distribution I shall sit down and translate my documentation
from German to English :-@ (<-- this means "baaaaaeeeeehhhh", pronounced
with tongue betweent teeth ;-)


			Michael
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