Re: Color CURSES?

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From: John Young
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1988 17:25

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> Does anyone have any pointers to a version of curses/termcap (or terminfo)
> that will support different colors and different video modes? What I'm
> looking for is something that will allow me to say "this word in green,
> this one in red, this one highlighted, this one blinking, etc." all on
> the same screen.
> 
> ANY help appreciated, but the actual software I need needs to be portable
> (i.e. NO hardcoded escape sequences!).
> 
> advTHANXance
> 
> sun!portal!cup.portal.com!Jeffrey_J_Vanepps

The curses/terminfo package shipped with UNIX SVR3.1 on the AT&T 6386WGS
supports setting of colors (attrset etc....) and also definition
of a colors' r,g,b values if this is supported in the hardware.

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From: jgy@hropus.UUCP (John Young)
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Subject: Re: Color CURSES?
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Date: 30 Mar 88 17:25:44 GMT
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