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Subject: ANNOUNCE: WM_CURSES Lite Free Demo for Porting MS Windows Apps
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 27,1995
Contact: Jesus Alvarez, President
E-mail: jalvarez@uno.com
Software UNO
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WM_CURSES Lite extends cross platform development to UNIX terminals !
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October 27, 1995 - Software UNO made available today a new entry level
version of its popular WM_CURSES library for achieving portability between
UNIX text mode and MS-Windows or UNIX Motif systems. This entry level
version, known as "WM_CURSES Lite", is creating a lot of excitement among
both Windows and UNIX software developers who can now achieve portability at
a reasonable cost. WM_CURSES Lite is available at no cost via anonymous FTP
or via Compuserve from the MAGMA forum. It is available for HP-UX, IBM AIX,
SCO, Linux and FreeBSD. Versions for other UNIX platforms will be available
from Software UNO. A C or C++ compiler are required on the target platform.
"Using WM_CURSES developers can develop a very contemporary user interface
for character terminals." said Jesus Alvarez, President of Software UNO.
"WM_CURSES supports color, mouse input and extended keycodes on terminals
with those capabilities. Since the implementations is based on the MS
Windows API, this code can be easily ported to MS Windows, to UNIX/Motif
(using WM_MOTIF) or to DOS systems (using MEWEL). Keeping separate source
code for UNIX terminals and UNIX Motif is no longer required."
The terminal market is important to developers of applications such as
databases and communications programs who have a significant percentage of
their user base running on text mode systems. Industry estimates place the
character terminal market at over 2.5 million units per year and most
terminal manufacturers (Wyse, DEC, HP) are releasing new terminal products.
There are over 30 million terminals connected to UNIX systems.
"Familiar MS-Windows techniques like subclassing, hooks, MDI, common dialogs
and many others can now be used under UNIX text mode with no code changes."
explains Marc Adler, Director of Development "WM_CURSES includes a full set
of Windows compatible controls as well as a resource compiler that compiles
your Windows resource scripts with minimal changes. WM_CURSES Lite fully
supports popular C++ frameworks including MFC, OWL and zApp."
If you need to redistribute applications developed using WM_CURSES Lite, a
full library is available providing a royalty free solution at a very
reasonable cost. Software UNO is committed to supporting WM_CURSES Lite on
all popular UNIX systems. Source code is available at additional cost for
meeting special functionality requirements or porting to additional
platforms. Rules and restrictions apply. Please see the README.LITE file on
the FTP directory.
Software UNO, with offices in New Jersey and Puerto Rico, is well known for
enhancing the portability and integration between MS Windows and UNIX systems.