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Subject: RE: Curses and SMG
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Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 21:32:23 EDT
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>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".


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