Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!jsq From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman) Newsgroups: mod.std.unix Subject: curses, terminfo, and termcap Message-ID: <2257@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 11:52:35 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.2257 Posted: Thu Jul 4 11:52:35 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Jul-85 00:33:28 EDT Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 69 Approved: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP From: John Quarterman (moderator)Topic: curses, terminfo, and termcap The moderated newsgroup mod.std.unix is for discussions of UNIX standards, in particular of the draft standard in progress by the IEEE P1003 "UNIX Standards" Committee. Please mail submissions to the newsgroup to: ut-sally!std-unix Mail to this address will be posted to mod.std.unix unless it is redundant or otherwise inappropriate, when I will reply by mail with suggestions on where else it might be appropriate. Please mail comments about the newsgroup to: ut-sally!std-unix-request Mail to this address will not be posted to mod.std.unix unless explicit permission is included in the mail, though I may reply with a request for permission to post. Mail to ut-sally!jsq regarding mod.std.unix is treated like mail to ut-sally!std-unix-request. It is possible to reach ut-sally through ihnp4, seismo, gatech, and harvard, among other UUCP connections, and as ut-sally.ARPA through the ARPA Internet or CSNET. -mod ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 2 Jul 85 15:49:39 CDT From: Stan Barber Subject: curses Apparently-To: std-unix@ut-sally.arpa With the posting of the game "Battleship" in net.sources.games recently came the realization that curses is not the same on SYSVr2 and BSD. After reading the instructions on SYSVr2, I think is is more powerful than the Ken Arnold original. It also seems upward compartable (for the most part) with Ken Arnold. I am not sure if curses is considered part of the "standard", but would like to see some discussion of this as well as the larger issure of termcap vs. terminfo format for terminal capabilities. Stan [ There has been recent discussion of all these things in net.unix. The System V Release 2 curses has apparently been extensively modified by Mark Horton, to do input translation, among other things. He also appears to be largely responsible for terminfo. The world seems to be moving from termcap to terminfo (for good reason, I think). There is a public domain termcap to terminfo translator. From: robert@gitpyr.UUCP (Robert Viduya) Newsgroups: net.sources Subject: termcap to terminfo translator Message-ID: <83@gitpyr.UUCP> Date: 30 Jan 85 20:42:01 GMT Organization: Georgia Tech, Atlanta A public domain version of curses and terminfo by Pavel Curtis of Cornell University was posted to mod.sources in December 1984. It appears to include most of the System V Release 2 innovations. I seem to recall that terminfo is supposed to be supplied with 4.3BSD, perhaps as user contributed software, but I don't remember for sure. -mod ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- John Quarterman, jsq@ut-sally.ARPA, {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!jsq