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Xref: sserve comp.terminals:2939 comp.unix.bsd:11996 comp.unix.programmer:9340 comp.unix.questions:33949 Newsgroups: comp.terminals,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.questions,su.computers.unix Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!zmbenhal From: zmbenhal@netcom.com (Zeyd M. Ben-Halim) Subject: Re: Know any AT&T Sys V Curses for BSD? Message-ID: <zmbenhalC6LHFn.G9E@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <MBPARKER.93May5110920@netcom3.com> Date: Thu, 6 May 1993 07:42:59 GMT Lines: 25 In article <MBPARKER.93May5110920@netcom3.com> mbparker@mit.edu 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. Pavel Curtis wrote a clone of the AT&T curses in 1982. I took the code, ported it to Linux, fixed several bugs, added SYSVR4 support. It also runs on 386BSD, and BSDI, and almost runs on suns. The lastest version is available on netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/ Zeyd PS. You'll need an ANSI C compiler.