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From: hawk@news.clinet.fi (Marko Lamminen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: [?] Problems compiling curses program!!
Date: 17 May 1994 21:34:04 GMT
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JOSE@olis.lib.ox.ac.uk wrote:
: The defines A_REVERSE, A_BOLD etc. are NOT in curses.h, or at least they
: aren't in the curses.h that comes with FreeBSD 1.1 Gamma.
: 

	They are part of SysVish curses so don't really exists
	in FreeBSD. Converting a SysV curses program to work
	with BSD curses can be a hell of a job, since SysV has
	quite a few functions that BSD hasn't got.

	Gladly, no self-respecting coder uses curses. :)

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