Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ll-xn!oberon!pollux.usc.edu!papa From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: TERMCAP and CURSES for the Amiga Keywords: amiga curses termcap Message-ID: <5636@oberon.USC.EDU> Date: 10 Dec 87 22:11:22 GMT References: <15745@watmath.waterloo.edu> <5572@oberon.USC.EDU> <15788@watmath.waterloo.edu> Sender: nobody@oberon.USC.EDU Reply-To: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 20 In article <15788@watmath.waterloo.edu> eadengler@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ed Dengler) writes: > I don't need the actual AT&T sources. I just need routines that >have the same calling names and paramters as CURSES and TERMCAP >and perform the same functions. I'm sure some people out there have >hacked together a set of such routines for their own use. I just >don't want to re-invent the wheel :-). > > I think the copyright AT&T has is just on the original sources, and not >on the functions these routines perform. > Of course one cannot copyright the CURSES "interface". For the Amiga your best bet is to use the "screen" functions that come with MANX C 3.40b. Though not identical to CURSES, they are very similar to it, and it should not be a difficult task to convert one to the other. Good luck. -- Marco Papa Felsina Software