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From: swilson%thetone@Sun.COM (Scott Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Getchar w/wout echo
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Date: 24 Aug 88 16:36:36 GMT
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>Who _cares_ how much baggage comes with Curses?
>(a) I don't have to write it.
>(b) I don't have to use the other stuff.
>(c) On a paging system, I don't even have to page the other stuff in.
>The basic point is that implementations of Curses exist *NOW* for
>	BSD UNIX
>	System V
>	VMS
>	MS-DOS

I care, other people care.  Some of us are developing C programs
on machines like the Macintosh where you are trying to fit your
OS stuff, your C programming tools, and your C project onto two
800K floppies.  This is comp.lang.c, not comp.lang.c.on.a.big.machine.
with.megabytes.of.disk.space.and.maybe.paging.  Size is important.
And curses is not universally available.

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