curses, terminfo, and termcap

[John Quarterman]

From: John Quarterman (moderator) <std-unix-request at ut-sally>
Topic: curses, terminfo, and termcap

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From: harvard!panda!genrad!john (John P. Nelson)
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 85 09:23:12 edt
To: panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!jsq
Subject: Re: curses, terminfo, and termcap
In-Reply-To: <2366 at ut-sally.UUCP>
References: <2257 at ut-sally.UUCP> <2294 at ut-sally.UUCP> <247 at mcc-db.UUCP>
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Bolton, Mass.


Please post this to mod.std.unix, since you have recommended that your
readership contact me directly.

  John P. Nelson (decvax!genrad!john) [moderator, mod.sources]

First, if you have access to any of the "standard" UNIX versions of curses,
you have got a better version than this one.  About the only thing that
recommends Pavel Curtis' version of curses is that it is public domain.
(Of course, that is pretty significant!) The terminfo implementation seems
to fairly solid, however.


For large distributions (such as the Pavel Curtis' terminfo/curses - 11 shar
format modules plus one more with updates) I try to discourage direct mailing
especially when the target site is several uucp hops away.  That generally
leaves two alternatives:  1. Send a tape in a self-addressed, stamped mailer.
I will put the distribution onto tape in tar, 1600 bpi format.  If you do
this, then make sure you include a note describing what you want put onto the
tape (Public Domain Terminfo/Curses package)  2.  I can send you the info for
our site's "sources" uucp login.  This uucp login is limited to transferring
to and from a single "sources" directory.  I am not making this login public
knowledge, because we cannot support any large level of traffic.

I am willing to entertain other suggestions.

John P. Nelson (decvax!genrad!john) [moderator, mod.sources]
GenRad   M.S. 96
37 Great Road
Bolton, MA 01740

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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 85 08:31:57 cdt
From: jsq at ut-sally.ARPA (John Quarterman)
Subject: Re:  PD terminfo, curses, etc.

If you are on the ARPA Internet, you can get it by anonymous FTP
(login anonymous, password guest) from ut-sally.ARPA from the directory
~ftp/pub/curses, where the files named 1 through 11 correspond to the
pieces posted on mod.sources.  There doesn't seem to be a standard ARPA
Internet repository for mod.sources.

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