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From: nett@gonzo.ETA.COM (Jerry Nettleton)
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Subject: Re: Need Curses for IBM PC (commercial OK)
Keywords: curses,ibm,pc
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Date: 26 Jul 88 19:44:26 GMT
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There are four CURSES packages that I know about.

    PCCURSES is public domain and source is included free.
    CURSES04 is shareware.  Cost is $20 for registration, additional $20
	for source code.
    CURSES by Aspen Scientific is a commercial product and costs $119.
	Source available for $289.
    CURSES by Lattice is a commercial product and costs $125 (with source
	$250), but through PC-Brand (800-722-7263) it is only $99 (with source
	$199).

I have used PCCURSES and CURSES04.  I prefer CURSES04 since it has a faster
screen update and supports a BIOS video option.  It also has many of the
curses functions as macros as in the UNIX versions.  That makes for a smaller
library of functions that has to be maintained.

A review of CURSES by Aspen and Lattice appeared in "Computer Language"
magazine in June 1987.

------ Summary of CURSES Packages ------

PCCURSES v.1.0 Release Notes - 870824
    Bjorn Larsson       (...seismo!mcvax!enea!infovax!bl)
    INFOVOX AB
    Box 2503
    S-171 02 Solna
    SWEDEN

CURSES04 Version 0.4 (3/87)
    Jeff Dean           ({parcvax,hplabs}!cdp!jeff)
    710 Chimalus        (jeff@ads.arpa)
    Palo Alto, CA  94306

CURSES
    Aspen Scientific
    P.O. Box 72
    Wheat Ridge, Colorado 80034-0072
    303-423-8088

CURSES
    Lattice, Inc.
    2500 S. Highland Avenue
    Lombard, IL 60148
    800-533-3577
    Illinois: 312-916-1600
Jerry Nettleton					email: nett@gonzo.eta.com
Software Engineer				 at&t: 612-642-8797
ETA Systems, Inc.				 usps: 1450 Energy Park Drive
						       St. Paul, MN 55108