Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site udenva.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!hao!nbires!boulder!cisden!udenva!ttorgers From: ttorgers@udenva.UUCP (Troy Torgerson) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: unix terminal i/o (summary) Message-ID: <746@udenva.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 11:44:49 EDT Article-I.D.: udenva.746 Posted: Wed Jul 10 11:44:49 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 12:12:20 EDT References: <> Reply-To: ttorgers@udenva.UUCP (Troy Torgerson) Organization: U of Denver Lines: 35 In article <> robg@mmintl.UUCP (Robert Goldman) writes: > > > > I am very grateful to everyone on the net who responded to my >requests for information about unix terminal i/o. Here is a brief summary >of the information which I received. > >where is it documented, and how does one get the documentation? > this was the real toughie. the man page for curses gives the >following reference: SEE ALSO >_Screen_Updating_and_Cursor_Movement_Optimization:_A_Library_Package_, Ken >Arnold. > I had no luck getting hold of this. I called Bell labs, and they >didn't have it, I called UCB and they couldn't tell their tushies from their >elbows, and I finally gave up when I found curses documentation in a >friend's copy of the XENIX documentation. That's a pretty good source, >albeit cluttered by a ridiculous number of repetitions of the initials >"IBM." Here are some suggestions which others gave; I hope you have better >luck than I did: >It comes with BSD documentation (Volume 2c I think) and SVR2 (called >"curses/terminfo" in the Programmer's Guide). You can get SV doc by >calling 1-800-828-UNIX I believe. > Michael Baldwin > AT&T Bell Laboratories I have SUaCMO:ALP by K. Arnold on our system. Try looking under /usr/doc/curses for a file called Curses.doc. Obviously, many of you don't have it, so If I get more than a couple requests, I'll post it. It is about 80 blocks unnroffed, so I'll wait to see if I get any requests for it. Troy Torgerson udenva!ttorgers