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From: lhf@aries5.uucp (Luiz H. deFigueiredo)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: CURSES wanted (or something better)
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Date: 14 Aug 89 13:37:33 GMT
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In article <1989Aug14.023203.23250@nc386.uucp> allbery@nc386.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>(P.S.  I'm not 100% certain that it is complete, but since curses is a
>Berkeley invention that AT&T adopted only late in the game, I'd guess that
>it's all there.)

No, AT&T curses is a *much* larger library than the BSD one available at uunet.
Actually, as I posted earlier in comp.unix.questions, the BSD code does not even
correctly implement the library described in the original curses paper by
K. Arnold!
There are other version which do such as ncurses by Pavel Curtis.
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