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Xref: sserve comp.terminals:2937 comp.unix.bsd:11990 comp.unix.programmer:9333 comp.unix.questions:33934 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!netnews.nwnet.net!serval!hlu From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (HJ Lu) Newsgroups: comp.terminals,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.questions,su.computers.unix Subject: Re: Know any AT&T Sys V Curses for BSD? Message-ID: <1993May5.222806.5967@serval.net.wsu.edu> Date: 5 May 93 22:28:06 GMT Article-I.D.: serval.1993May5.222806.5967 References: <MBPARKER.93May5110920@netcom3.com> Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University Lines: 26 In article <MBPARKER.93May5110920@netcom3.com>, mbparker@netcom3.com (Michael Benjamin Parker) writes: |> After Berkeley's Ken Arnold developed the curses now distributed in BSD 4.3 |> Unix, Bell Labs' Mark Horton wrote an extension of BSD curses, now distributed |> with AT&T System V unix as its curses. The AT&T curses adds valuable |> extensions to the BSD curses such as terminal control-keys parsing and |> character display attributes, and I'm porting some AT&T Unix software to BSD |> which takes advantage of these extensions only found in AT&T curses. |> |> So has anyone ported the extensions of AT&T curses back into BSD curses, so |> BSD can have all the functionality of System V? I've found no such thing |> executing ``archie curses''. Thanks you very much for your info, |> -- |> Michael B. Parker |> P.O. Box 60951, Palo Alto, CA 94306-0951; voice 415-325-4451 (24 hrs), |> email MBParker@MIT.Edu (no NeXTmail yet), fax & modem 415-325-8604. |> -- |> Michael B. Parker |> P.O. Box 60951, Palo Alto, CA 94306-0951; voice 415-325-4451 (24 hrs), |> email MBParker@MIT.Edu (no NeXTmail yet), fax & modem 415-325-8604. Try comp.os.linux and ask for ncurses. I was told it is quite close to SYSV curses. It is still in beta, I think. H.J.