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From: cbema!las@cbnews.ATT.COM (cbema!las)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: CURSES manual wanted by games programmer
Message-ID: <6619@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 16 May 89 19:46:06 GMT
References: <2186@uwovax.uwo.ca> <6580@cbnews.ATT.COM> <20769@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: cbema!las@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH (actually an AGS consultant)
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In article <20769@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) writes:
>Larry --- do you have an anticipated delivery date for this new release
>of curses?

>"Dammit, I just can't wait..."

Let me look at my schedule...  Damn!  I'm having a little trouble find-
ing enough evening and weekend time.  I might be able to finish it to my 
satisfaction in one more week.  I want at least a week of testing to go 
with it, maybe more (again, I assume enough free time) as I want it to 
test well.  Looks like we're talking a minimum of two weeks - Murphy'll 
see that doesn't happen, right?.  Perhaps we are talking about as much 
as three to four weeks.

Perhaps you could help me test.  For that matter, maybe others could 
help.  Does anyone have some good programs to test it with (test suites,
utilities, games, or other neat stuff)?  If so please e-mail - this 
would be an immense help.  Remember, this is the Turbo C version, I do 
not have MicroSoft C at present, so I cannot verify that it works with 
that as well.  For fast release, I need these things quickly.

For possible future release:

 1) Has anyone else modified or enhanced PC Curses since the 17 Oct 87 
    release (that's the date on Michael Ewan's README.TOO file in the 
    package - Bjorn Larsson's release date of the MSoft C V4 version 
    appears to be 24 Aug 87)?  Perhaps we can produce a coordinated 
    release, please e-mail.

 2) Has anyone added EGA/VGA support?

 3) Perhaps an MSoft C wizard could step forward to help bring forth a 
    compatible, transportable version.

regards, Larry
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