Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 00:38:24 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: termcap/curses vs ncurses Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.92.960407235301.20190B-100000@freebsd.ki.net>
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Hi... Other then "because nobody has done it yet", why do we have termcap & curses & ncurses & mytinfo? ncurses alone replaces them all, except for the fact that everyone seems to be dead-set against terminfo vs termcap. curses is dated '94, termcap is dated '93, and I haven't figured out what mytinfo is used for, but its dated '92, while ncurses is being actively developed. it just looks like a lot of redundant libraries to do the same thing, with the result of having a bloated set of libraries. Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc
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