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From: seeger@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Charles Seeger)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: CURSES Tutorials
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Date: 31 Aug 88 00:06:37 GMT
References: <430@tutor.UUCP> <3022@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
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In article <3022@boulder.Colorado.EDU> wu@spot.Colorado.EDU (WU SHI-KUEI) writes:
>In article <430@tutor.UUCP> pete@tutor.UUCP (Peter Schmitt) writes:
>>I would like any information on books or tutorials on programming
>>with the curses library.
>
>"Topics in C" by Kochan & Wood and "UNIX Systems Programming" by Haviland
>and Salama contain chapters on curses.
>

Also try "Advanced C Programming for Displays" by Marc Rochkind (Prentice-
Hall, 1988).  This book discusses the implementation of an editor and 
windows for character displays using termcap and curses for UNIX(tm) and
using BIOS calls and memory-mapped video for an IBM PC.  Curses comes out
being pretty slow.

Regards
Chuck