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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: TERMCAP and CURSES for the Amiga
Message-ID: <17239@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Tue, 8-Dec-87 11:49:43 EST
Article-I.D.: glacier.17239
Posted: Tue Dec  8 11:49:43 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Dec-87 15:03:46 EST
References: <15745@watmath.waterloo.edu> <5572@oberon.USC.EDU>
Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle)
Organization: Stanford University
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Keywords: amiga curses termcap

In article <5572@oberon.USC.EDU> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
>The sources for termcap and curses are copyrighted by AT&T, and it is illegal
>to distribute them over electronic networks.
>
>-- Marco
>  
     Wrong.  These mechanisms come from the University of California at
Berkeley, and were developed originally by Bill Joy (as part of the VI
editor) and Ken Arnold.  (AT&T has their own system, called "terminfo",
but it hasn't really caught on.)  The "termcap" file of terminal properties
has been contributed to by hundreds of people, and various versions,
none of which seem to get the VT100 quite right, are widely distributed over
electronic networks.   Berkeley UNIX and VI clones contain copies of the
"termcap" file.  The source for "curses" is copyrighted by The Regents
of the University of California.  But you could write your own, compatible
version, and several people have.  Commercial versions of Curses are available
for the IBM PC from Lattice ($89) and Aspen Scientific ($105).  Contact The
Programmer's Shop, 800-421-8006.


					John Nagle