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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!cmorgan 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 Lines: 21 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