Re: Ncurses ported to DOS

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Blair Campbell wrote:

> Hi.  I recently compiled ncurses for DJGPP and I thought maybe you'd
> be interested.  I modified the terminfo entry for 'djgpp' to get it to
> function properly (as far as I can tell; I've tested it with dialog).
> I thought that perhaps it would also be possible to detect DJGPP in
> the configure script and make some of the options I used default for
> that platform, such as --disable-sigwinch, --disable-big-core,
> --disable-termcap, --without-dlsym, --disable-home-terminfo, and
> --with-fallbacks=pcansi-m,djgpp.  I suggest the --with-fallbacks
> option because most people using programs compiled against this

hmm - I'm interested in fixes to make it work, but am cautious
about platform-defaults (for instance, --disable-sigwinch should
be redundant if djgpp's header files do not support the feature).

suggested defaults can be for instance a script that lives in the
misc directory...

> library will not have terminfo installed on their system, and pcansi-m
> seems to be the best monochrome term setting for DOS.  I also wrote a
> gpm-compatible library that interfaces with a DOS mouse driver and
> successfully linked ncurses against it without source changes.  Would
> you be interested in seeing the terminfo file I used?  I noticed that
> porting to DOS is on your Future Plans list.

the terminfo would be interesting - I have entries for djgpp 2.03 and 
2.04 for comparison.

thanks

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