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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: ncurses ??? Date: 17 Jun 1997 17:54:22 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5o6j0e$9a0@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <33A4F87D.167E@luna.net> <87rae2ney2.fsf@jekyll.piermont.com> <5o6dub$5n8@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6129 "J.D.Coleman" <J.D.Coleman@ncl.ac.uk> wrote: > : We were about to, and then the goddamn war over the ownership of the > : code started. Some of the authors are disputing the right of others to > : make changes to the code, apparently. > > So why not develop 4.4 curses further? It lacks the entire keyboard handling machine, and the graphics capabilities are fairly inferior. It can't even draw a box with the alternate characterset. 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. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j