Re: ncurses specification

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 11:40:36AM -0600, address@hidden wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I would ask if some of the members of the ncurses development team could take 
> a
> look at the Linux Standard Base's attempt to document the ncurses ABI.
> 
> http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/gLSB/gLSB/libcurses.html

(hmm - whoever wrote the page - simply pasted a chunk from ncurses manpage)

> Are we referencing the write specification?   Are we using the write APIs?   
> Are
> we missing any APIs?

don't know (it seems to have ncurses's extensions through 5.2)
 
> What validation test cases are available for ncurses?

how do you propose to validate it?

(similar: does X/Open have a validation test suite - code - for XSI Curses,
or only paper?)
 
> Please respond to address@hidden
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> George Kraft IV
> address@hidden
> IBM Linux Technology Center
> FSG's Linux Standard Base
> 
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