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Article #12061Re: bold & inverse curses
From: Guy Harris
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1989 14:38
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1989 14:38
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>We want to create normal text, bold text, and inverse text, but curses >seems to support only a 'standout' mode that can be either bold or >inverse, but it doesn't appear to have another mode. Are we missing >something? No. The "curses" that comes with 4.xBSD - which is one of the ones that comes with SunOS as well - supports only "standout" mode. >Is there a way to add a mode to curses? Well, you could grab the source from a 4.xBSD system and modify it to support another mode.... The System V "curses" supports multiple modes; it's the other one of the ones that come with SunOS. Unfortunately, it's a bit tricky to use it if you don't compile in the System V environment, since its library has the same name as the BSD one, as does its include file. (There are some incompatibilities, so the S5 one wasn't just used as a replacement for the BSD one.)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: auspex!guy@uunet.uu.net (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: bold & inverse curses Keywords: Software Message-ID: <1199@auspex.UUCP> Date: 21 Apr 89 14:38:40 GMT References: <8903032033.AA01156@amadeus.mitre.org> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 19 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 24 Mar 89 20:12:27 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 235, message 4 of 15