Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 16:42:30 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Subject: Re: BSD curses vs. ncurses? Message-ID: <199611301542.QAA02196@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199611301018.UAA25957@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Nov 30, 96 08:48:24 pm"
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As Michael Smith wrote: > Will I find the BSD curses difficult to work with? Would other > programmers working on the code lampoon me for using it? Despite of a few minor annoyances on the output side (like the stupid semantics of the box() function that doesn't allow you to use line graphics characters), the biggest difference between both is that SysV curses alias ncurses does ``input symbol cooking'' for you, while BSD curses doesn't. Hence, you can ask for something like ``the page up key'', or ``function key #5'' in SysV curses. If you don't need this, you might often even be able to substitute one for another. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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