Re: LYNX-DEV UNIXish and DOSish software

[John E. Davis]

On Sun, 22 Mar 1998 02:01:38 -0500 (EST), Michael Sokolov <address@hidden> said:
>   As for curses, I plan to write a library that would look exactly like
>BSD curses to the app but instead of picking escape sequences from termcap
>and sending them to stdout would access the screen directly.

   Slang already does this for OS/2, MSDOS, and WIN95.  It uses
termcap/terminfo only on Unix systems and writes ESC sequences to
stdout only when running on Unix or VMS systems.

--John