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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: printf, data presentation
Message-ID: <2654@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 6 Jan 89 22:17:50 GMT
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In article <9281@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> In article <11064@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> cjc@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Chris Calabrese[mav]) writes:
> >Besides, who uses a character terminal any more :-) :-) :-) :-)
> 
> Exactly.  That's why I don't support standardization of curses-like
> interfaces.  It's an idea whose time has gone.

When there's a recognised standard for bitmapped displays, then you can
say the need for curses is gone. In the meantime, curses is the best
tool we have... it's the only one that lets you do the job (presenting
2-d textual data in a machine-independent way).

STDWIN is a nice start at a replacement, but it's pretty complex.
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