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From: gero@gkminix.han.de (Gero Kuhlmann)
Subject: Re: curses
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Date: Sat, 23 Dec 95 23:24:01 GMT
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Hello,

Will Rose (cwr@crash.cts.com) wrote:
> There is at least one curses library for Minix, but I don't know
> how good it is - the title is pccurses, and as the name suggest it
> runs under MSDOS and Unix.  It compiles OK under 1.5, but I don't
> have a 1.7 system up to check if it's ok under 1.7.

Since the original BSD curses library for Linux is quite simple I re-
wrote the Minix pccurses library to support graphics characters, colors
and much more. However, I only used it on Linux so far. Is there any
interest in providing this to a broader audience? The library itself
is still pretty small, so it should not be a problem to use it with
Minix - besides adapting the low level termio interface. The source
is about 40 kB gzipped.

gero.

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