Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!gatech!udel!mmdf From: VBRANDT%DBNUAMA1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: ATARI/MINIX curses Message-ID: <5767@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 1 Dec 88 19:55:31 GMT Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU Lines: 26 Freeman P. Pascal IVasks: >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 :-) Bitnet: VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1 Volker A. Brandt UUCP: ...!unido!DBNUAMA1.bitnet!vbrandt Angewandte Mathematik ARPAnet: VBRANDT%DBNUAMA1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Bonn, West Germany)