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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!europa.clark.net!news.clark.net!not-for-mail From: T.E.Dickey <dickey@clark.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: ncurses ??? Date: 23 Jun 1997 12:19:38 GMT Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc., Ellicott City, MD USA Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5olpkq$nn0@clarknet.clark.net> References: <33A4F87D.167E@luna.net> <87rae2ney2.fsf@jekyll.piermont.com> <5o6dub$5n8@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk> <5o6j0e$9a0@innocence.interface-business.de> <5o75bi$46v@quack.ma.utexas.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 100-explorer.clark.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970527; sun4m SunOS 5.4] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6152 Jason Brazile <brazile@quack.ma.utexas.edu> wrote: : 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. I believe you people are referring to ncurses 1.8.6 (released in August 1994). The current version of ncurses is 4.1 There's an faq at http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html -- Thomas E. Dickey dickey@clark.net http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey