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ncurses and DOS/Windows
From: |
Alan Meyer |
Subject: |
ncurses and DOS/Windows |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:12:50 -0500 |
As far as I know, ncurses is not now and is unlikely to be available
for DOS, though there is a Win32 version in the Cygwin package.
However, you may be able to use PDCurses, another freeware, open
source curses package which is available for DOS.
Here's one link for it that I found on the net:
http://www.lightlink.com/hessling/PDCurses/
I have no experience in curses programming. The other posters on
this list can give you vastly more authoritative information. But I
am also interested in building an application that runs portably on
UNIX, Linux, Windows, DOS, and possibly other environments. My hope
is that I can use a common subset of both pdcurses (for DOS and
Windows) and ncurses (for Linux and UNIX) that will require only some
very small conditional compilation statements in my code to enable it
to compile without modification using either package.
I don't know if that will actually work, and by the time I get around
to doing it I might give up DOS and do the whole thing in Java.
Good luck.
--
Alan Meyer
AM Systems, Inc.
Randallstown, MD USA
address@hidden