Re: Has anyone compared ncurses against the two Solaris 8 curses libraries?

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Larry W. Virden wrote:

> 
> I'm wondering if anyone has did an analysis of the curses that comes with 
> Solaris 8, comparing it to ncurses.  In the past, we've always linked
> against -lcurses on Solaris for our 'production' code.  However, as
> we begin looking at moving to Solaris 8, I get this question from one
> of my developers:
> 
> Okay, I'll bite.  Which libcurses should we link against for Solaris 8?

I have an impression that the newer Solaris binaries are larger than
ncurses for two reasons: 64-bit support (?) and additional
internationalization support.
 
> -rw-r--r--   3 root     bin       765864 Jan  5  2000 /usr/lib/libcurses.a
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         16 Jun 22 12:40 /usr/lib/libcurses.so 
> -> 
> ./libcurses.so.1
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin       463544 Jan  5  2000 /usr/lib/libcurses.so.1
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     bin        91832 Jan  5  2000 /usr/ucblib/libcurses.a
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         16 Jun 22 12:35 
> /usr/ucblib/libcurses.so 
> -> ./libcurses.so.1
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin        66312 Jan  5  2000 
> /usr/ucblib/libcurses.so.1
> 
> The /usr/lib version is more than 8 times the size of the /usr/ucblib version.
> Does it do something new and miraculous?

The /usr/lib version does color - not in the ucb version afaik.  Also,
the ucb version probably doesn't do function-keys and a lot of functions
that tend to hide the internal details of the WINDOW struct.

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