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Re: ncurses and DOS/Windows
From: |
Mark Hessling |
Subject: |
Re: ncurses and DOS/Windows |
Date: |
Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:40:16 +1000 (EST) |
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Alan Meyer wrote:
> As far as I know, ncurses is not now and is unlikely to be available
> for DOS, though there is a Win32 version in the Cygwin package.
>
> However, you may be able to use PDCurses, another freeware, open
> source curses package which is available for DOS.
Actually PDCurses is Public Domain rather than freeware, although some portions
of it (the native X11 code) is Copyright by me.
>
> Here's one link for it that I found on the net:
>
This is the PDCurses home page.
> http://www.lightlink.com/hessling/PDCurses/
>
> I have no experience in curses programming. The other posters on
> this list can give you vastly more authoritative information. But I
> am also interested in building an application that runs portably on
> UNIX, Linux, Windows, DOS, and possibly other environments. My hope
> is that I can use a common subset of both pdcurses (for DOS and
That's what I do with THE; my text editor. It runs on DOS, OS/2, Windows and
X11 with PDCurses, and text-mode Unix, BeOS, QNX, Amiga with ncurses.
> Windows) and ncurses (for Linux and UNIX) that will require only some
> very small conditional compilation statements in my code to enable it
> to compile without modification using either package.
PDCurses and ncurses complement each other reasonably well. As mentioned
above, PDCurses is also available for X11. This enables you to make a couple
of minor changes to your code and end up with a native X11 application.
>
> I don't know if that will actually work, and by the time I get around
> to doing it I might give up DOS and do the whole thing in Java.
>
> Good luck.
> --
> Alan Meyer
> AM Systems, Inc.
> Randallstown, MD USA
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Cheers, Mark
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* Mark Hessling, address@hidden http://www.lightlink.com/hessling/
* Author of THE; a Free XEDIT/KEDIT editor, Rexx/SQL, Rexx/Curses, Rexx/Wrapper
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