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From: achowe@tiger.waterloo.edu (CrackerJack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Curses for the ST
Message-ID: <14523@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 22 Jul 89 12:01:35 GMT
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Reply-To: achowe@tiger.waterloo.edu (CrackerJack)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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>Speaking of curses, is there a *real* version of curses available
>for the ST?  The only "curses" package I've seen is hardcoded for
>the ST/VT52 screen only.  True curses supports any number of different
>terminal types with the termcap database.  I know Fred Fish has
>written a PD termcap library that will compile on the ST, but I
>still haven't seen a real curses yet.

There is a curses library/source for ftp on him1.cc.umich.edu. 
I used this package to port TETRIX about 2 months ago (which has since
been posted to the net).

- Ant
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