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From: cmorgan@netcom.com (Clark O. Morgan)
Subject: Re: Bold and Underline in BSD curses.
Message-ID: <cmorganCu4w35.L1r@netcom.com>
Organization: netcom
References: <1994Aug5.193528.20679@apgea.army.mil> <31ue5l$6la@si-nic.hrz.uni-siegen.de>
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 1994 22:06:40 GMT
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In article <31ue5l$6la@si-nic.hrz.uni-siegen.de> engel@numerik.fb6.uni-siegen.de (Michael Engel) writes:
>Smith S. Charles <scsmith> (scsmith@apgea.army.mil) wrote:
>: Hello,
>
>: 	Has any one implemented the attr family of routines in the BSD
>: curses library.  Specifically I want to be able to use bold and underlined
>: text with curses.
>
>Try using ncurses. This is a free (GNU ??) System-V compatible curses 
>library that supports  attributes, colors and all the other fine things 
>SysV curses has (well, this seems to be the only advantage System V has over 
>BSD :-)). I used ncurses on quite a lot of systems with success.

I second this opinion.  I recently implemented a screen-oriented filter 
using curses and was tremendously disappointed with the small feature
set of BSD curses vis a vis SysV curses.  To make my filter portable,
I had to write to the lowest common denominator -- BSD curses.

Question:  did CSRG enhance curses for BSD 4.4?
-- 
Clark O. Morgan     cmorgan@netcom.com