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to: FREDERIC LHOEST
from: CAREY BLOODWORTH
date: 1998-03-22 21:21:00
subject: RE: CURSES

FL> FL>> I'm searching CURSES.H and NCURSE.H for DOS !
FL> CB> There are various CURSES ports to DOS.
FL>Pretty cooool ! :)
FL> CB> For regular 16 bit curses, there are a couple in the C User's group
FL>So ... do you have an Internet address for me ? :)
No.  I have no idea.  However, I know a board that has the cd, so I
grabbed them, and they aren't really worth trying.  One is only
pre-compiled libraries, and the other is an early version of a newer
one you can get.
The PDCurses is a fairly portable version that has already been ported
to a number of platforms.  Here is the (I think) main site for it.  I
got it from the docs, so I don't know if it's still used, etc.
site:  ftp.gu.edu.au    132.234.1.1
directory: /src/PDCurses
-rw-r--r--  1 root     11            652 Feb 14 03:35 README
-rw-r--r--  1 root     11         129916 Feb 14 03:35 pdcbcc22.zip
-rw-r--r--  1 root     11          97519 Feb 14 03:35 pdcdjg22.zip
-rw-r--r--  1 root     11         116055 Feb 14 03:35 pdcemx22.zip
-rw-r--r--  1 root     11          90133 Feb 14 03:35 pdcicc22.zip
-rw-r--r--  1 root     11         125925 Feb 14 03:35 pdcmsc22.zip
-rw-r--r--  1 root     11         225741 Feb 14 03:35 pdcurs22.zip
You can also get it from any place that does the DJGPP v2 compiler.
It'll be in one of the few subdirectories.  The simtel site
(ftp.simtel.net) also has the djgpp version (in the djgpp directory) and
the 'plain' pdcurs22 in one of the msdos directories.  Probably either
'c' or 'screen utilities' etc.
(There is a package called aecurses in the DJGPP v1 directories, but
it's older and is copyrighted source.  Not really worth using when you
can do PD instead.)
As for Ncurses.....  It turns out there is a GNU ncurses package
(available on any gnu ftp site), but I haven't seen it ported to dos.
What I saw was the patches to port it to EMX (linux, etc.)....  So you'd
have to port that yourself, I guess.
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