Re: Ncurses & native WIN32 support...

[Austin Gilbert]

On Nov 7, 2005, at 11:53 PM, William McBrine wrote:

> On 11/7/05, Austin Gilbert <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Is anyone working on a native version of Ncurses for Windows??
>
> Try PDCurses:
>
> http://pdcurses.sf.net/
>
> It's 90% compatible with ncurses.

Yes, I'm aware of PDCurses.  I also question the 90% figure...

I can tell you that PDCurses doesn't  compile on my Mac OS 10.4.3  
machine out of the box :( This makes me somewhat concerned about its  
portability.  Other things that concern me about PDCurses:

1. referring to X11 as an operating system (from http:// 
pdcurses.sourceforge.net/)

> PDCurses is a public domain curses library for X11, Win32, DOS and  
> OS/2, with most functions available in System V R4 curses. It  
> supports most compilers on the above operating systems.


2. referring to C as an interpreted language ( from http:// 
sourceforge.net/projects/pdcurses )

> Operating System: OS Independent (Written in an interpreted language)