Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!visdc!jiii
From: jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Curses manual, example?
Message-ID: <559@visdc.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 89 20:44:12 GMT
References: <11@minya.UUCP>
Reply-To: jiii@visdc.UUCP (John E Van Deusen III)
Organization: VI Software Development, Boise, Idaho
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In article <11@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
>
> ...does there exist a good intro/manual for the
> curses/termcap/terminfo package?

A good discussion of curses and a lot of other things is contained in
the UNIX Xystem V Programmer's Guide, Prentice Hall, 1987, $34.95,
ISBN 0-13-940438-4.

Curses is relatively new to SysV, so it is not available on older
SysV machines.  Curses/terminfo is not completely compatible with the
BSD Curses package either.  I believe that curses/terminfo works all
right, but older versions of curses/termcap are said to be buggy.
Curses may not be aid to portability that you might hope.
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John E Van Deusen III, PO Box 9283, Boise, ID  83707, (208) 343-1865

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