MAJOR FLAME ABOUT DPY

[Brandon Allbery]

I am willing to forgive 4.2 dependence on signals, etc., as the author
of dpy stated that he doesn't have access to anything other than 4.2.

But *this*, of all things, he should have known about:  NOT ALL OF US
HAVE FLEXNAMES, D**N IT!

Having grown tired of waiting for curses, I tried looking at dpy, and
ran my long-identifier locator over it to finf internal routines with
long names.

What I got out included "dpyclearline" and "dpyclearwindow".  9 characters
before they can be discriminated from each other.  Our compiler only
accepts 8; the assembler only sees 7 of those.  So much for that.

I may look at writing a *portable* version, with new names, and posting
it, but I'd like some feedback from the net (and maybe from the author)
first.  If I don't get any, maybe I'll just write my own.  V7, plus System
III that I work with.

Any takers?

Brandon (bsa at ncoast.UUCP)
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