Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!LBL.ARPA!nagy%warner.hepnet From: nagy%warner.hepnet@LBL.ARPA Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: RE: Curses and SMG Message-ID: <870721183224.00q@Lbl.Arpa> Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 21:32:23 EDT Article-I.D.: Lbl.870721183224.00q Posted: Tue Jul 21 21:32:23 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 03:13:18 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 23 >Could somebody comment about the merits of : >1) Curses >2) the Screen management routines I've not written much to use either VAX C Curses or SMG but have studied both (others here a busy writing applications using SMG). SMG seems, from reading the documentation, to be very, very powerful. The VAX DEBUGger uses SMG in screen mode; the performance and utility seems very good. VAX C Curses actually is a layer on top of SMG, however Curses does not take advantage of all the functionality of SMG. Curses seems most useful for writing portable software or porting software to VMS from UNIX. I'd certainly rather use SMG directly, even from VAX C, except when maybe throwing together one of those "quick and dirties". = Frank J. Nagy = Fermilab Research Division EED/Controls = HEPNET: WARNER::NAGY (43198::NAGY) or FNAL::NAGY (43009::NAGY) = BitNet: NAGY@FNAL = USnail: Fermilab POB 500 MS/220 Batavia, IL 60510