Curses manual, example?

John E Van Deusen III jiii at visdc.UUCP
Fri Jun 9 06:44:12 AEST 1989


In article <11 at minya.UUCP> jc at minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
>
> ...does there exist a good intro/manual for the
> curses/termcap/terminfo package?

A good discussion of curses and a lot of other things is contained in
the UNIX Xystem V Programmer's Guide, Prentice Hall, 1987, $34.95,
ISBN 0-13-940438-4.

Curses is relatively new to SysV, so it is not available on older
SysV machines.  Curses/terminfo is not completely compatible with the
BSD Curses package either.  I believe that curses/terminfo works all
right, but older versions of curses/termcap are said to be buggy.
Curses may not be aid to portability that you might hope.
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