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From: tom@iic.net (Thomas T. Thai)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: ncurses ???
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 11:19:58 GMT
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On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 10:25:33 +0200, Ruben van Staveren
<ruben@luna.net> wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>Just a question..
>
>It seems more applications (NcFTP, Mutt) need ncurses instead of 
>just curses, and as the ncurses maintainer states that 4.4BSD curses
>is discontinued, why does NetBSD not import ncurses ? it has a BSD
>copying policy, or is there too much gpl'ed or SvR4 stuff in it
>that would break the compatibility/philosophy in NetBSD ?

There was a big discussion about this on the mailing list.. so you
might want to grep the list archive and check.