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From: brazile@quack.ma.utexas.edu (Jason Brazile)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: ncurses ???
Date: 17 Jun 1997 18:07:30 -0500
Organization: University of Texas, Austin
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In article <5o6j0e$9a0@innocence.interface-business.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de> wrote:
>
>OTOH, ncurses IMHO suffers creeping featurism, and has been shooting
>far beyond its goal to produce a SysV-curses lookalike.  The last
>detail i stumpled across when debugging Mutt's resize problem was that
>it installs a SIGWINCH handler -- something SysV never does.

And, in some cases it just doesn't work.  Last time I tried linking
programs like fireworks and worms against it, it left garbage all over
the screen (qume qvt119, if it matters). The same programs worked fine 
with BSD curses.

Jason