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Subject: Re: ATARI/MINIX curses
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Date: 1 Dec 88 19:55:31 GMT
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Freeman P. Pascal IV  asks:

>At sometime in my scrounging I happened apon a curses package for the ATARI.
>I don't know if it's for the ST or older.  It appears to be an almost complete
>implementation of curses with exception of some of the low level terminal
>routines.  It also appears to run in a VT52 mode.

>I would port this curses package to MINIX if it was in the public domain or
>the copyright granted permission. But!! there's no copyright, no authors
>name, no nothing - with the exception of a notice in curses.h that states
>some of the copyright limits.

>My question is - would any of you out there in netland have seen or heard
>of a curses package that sounds remotely like this?  I need to know more
>info before I tackle porting it.  Like, is it PD?

Yes, there is a PD curses package for the ST. You may safely port it to
Minix. It's available at several of the ST servers in various networks.
See if you can grab a copy and compare it with your version of curses.

If makes you feel better I can try to dig up the name of the author :-)

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