Getchar w/wout echo
Scott Wilson
swilson%thetone at Sun.COM
Thu Aug 25 02:36:36 AEST 1988
>Who _cares_ how much baggage comes with Curses?
>(a) I don't have to write it.
>(b) I don't have to use the other stuff.
>(c) On a paging system, I don't even have to page the other stuff in.
>The basic point is that implementations of Curses exist *NOW* for
> BSD UNIX
> System V
> VMS
> MS-DOS
I care, other people care. Some of us are developing C programs
on machines like the Macintosh where you are trying to fit your
OS stuff, your C programming tools, and your C project onto two
800K floppies. This is comp.lang.c, not comp.lang.c.on.a.big.machine.
with.megabytes.of.disk.space.and.maybe.paging. Size is important.
And curses is not universally available.
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Scott Wilson arpa: swilson at sun.com
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