> Does anyone know where I could obtain a curses look-alike for dos?

Yes. Mark Hessling's PDCURSES package does a pretty good job. It was
evolved originally from PDCURSES 1.3 which is still around on BBS's but has
been completely rewritten for MSDOS & OS/2 compatibility and is
actually in the process of being ported back to UNIX (!! :-)). It supports
both BSD and SYSV curses.

 > An ftp site would be great.

While PDCURSES 2.0 was published on comp.sources.misc and is widely
available at various sites (access archie if you need more info), I have
version 2.1 here which - although officially in 'beta' - fixes numerous
bugs and problems with the 2.0 release.

Again, I've placed it on hold.

Requestable as CURSES21.ZIP ~250K.

  cheers,
  david

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