Questions on CURSES by Pavel Curtis 1982
Wolf N. Paul
wnp at dcs.UUCP
Sat Jun 25 23:30:46 AEST 1988
In article <522 at sbsvax.UUCP> greim at sbsvax.UUCP (Michael Greim) writes:
>3.) Why do people use old CURSES with its lots of bugs and inefficiencies, if
> this one [Pavel Curtis'] is superior, as it seems to be?
Well, old curses or SysV curses comes with every UNIX system; if you use it
in your source, the source is bound to be compatible.
If you use any kind of a replacement library instead of the standard
distribution, you almost have to distribute that replacement library with
your source.
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