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In article <27OCT199106122409@mary.fordham.edu> bdowning@mary.fordham.edu (Brian Downing) writes:
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>  Kris,
>The Computer Club at Fordham has started a graphics port of gnugo. I'm
>interested in doing the VMS work. Because VMS doesn't have a decent curses
>I'll have to use SMG (Screen Management).     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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                                             Now THAT'S an understatement!  :-)

Simply because use of the SMG$ routines locks you into VMS, I would suggest
you at least take a look at a publicly-available (with source) version of
curses that seems to mimic SVR3 curses quite well.

For implementing the "pcurses" on VMS, it seems one would only need to write a
simple simulation of stty() ... all the capabilities required for the subset
needed by curses DO exist in VMS (i.e. echo/noecho, "set term/line=", etc.)

Besides, I've heard from a very reliable source that curses outperforms SMG by
4 to 1 (tested by alternately running Ultrix and VMS on the same platform).

Though there are many archive sites of comp.sources.unix, the list below is
that of the pcurses on UUNET (aka ftp.uu.net):

	/usr/spool/ftp/usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume1/pcurses:
	total 246
	-r--r--r--  1 rsalz       19242 Dec  1  1986 part01.Z
	-r--r--r--  1 rsalz       20737 Dec  1  1986 part02.Z
	-r--r--r--  1 rsalz       23948 Dec  1  1986 part03.Z
	-r--r--r--  1 rsalz       20789 Dec  1  1986 part04.Z
	-r--r--r--  1 rsalz       18821 Dec  1  1986 part05.Z
	-r--r--r--  1 rsalz       19246 Dec  1  1986 part06.Z
	-r--r--r--  1 rsalz       20075 Dec  1  1986 part07.Z
	-r--r--r--  1 rsalz       21740 Dec  1  1986 part08.Z
	-r--r--r--  1 rsalz       25758 Dec  1  1986 part09.Z
	-r--r--r--  1 rsalz       24405 Dec  1  1986 part10.Z
	-r--r--r--  1 rsalz       21050 Dec  1  1986 part11.Z
	-r--r--r--  1 rsalz        9307 Dec  1  1986 patch1.Z

Don't even consider the BSD curses (sources also available at UUNET); the BSD
curses is much too limited and DOES seem to be that upon which DEC's VMS curses
was based. 

Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com (OR) {decwrl, mips, fernwood}!btr!thad ]