Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!decuac!shlump.nac.dec.com!hiatus.dec.com!atps.dec.com From: grasmann@atps.dec.com (Aspirations of a higher nature) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Help with CURSES! Message-ID: <1507@hiatus.dec.com> Date: 3 Oct 89 16:13:11 GMT Sender: news@hiatus.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corp Lines: 31 Hello to the Ether (and all with ears to hear)! I have been foiled again: CURSES! I thought it was aptly named, especially after it stung me more than once. I am a novice to C, and the only UNIX I knew were talked about in the Bible. Having worked with TURBO C now (my only C, except for transporting code to VAX C) for a year and a half (on a Zenith laptop TurbosPort (what else?)) I keep on running into calls to CURSES, and I have no idea what it is. Well, I do, but the knowledge is almost useless. I end up HACKING out what I think the call should do, and then things almost work - sort of like a clock-spring with a bandage. So, could anyone enlighten me? I suspect that CURSES might be copyrighted or something by a Berserk layman, since I can't seem to find anything of much relevance... Basically, are there any look-alike routines around somewhere? How about a detailed explanation of all the calls, so one might more accurately hack out a substitute? I need to include working code into some programs I have acquired, and the authors seem to have assumed that everyone would have CURSES. Well, I do, but not *that* kind. Thanks for any help! Steve Grasmann grasmann@atps.dec.com