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Hi!

Re:
> Thad, would you recommend snarfing pcurses as an upgrade for the
> curses on the 3b1?

With the exception of COLOR support, I really haven't found any problem with
curses on the 3B1 (at not with that accompanying 3.51).  For some reason, we
have a fairly modern SVR3 curses on the 3B1!  :-)

I have a student (at UCSC) looking at pcurses right now to put on our VAXen
running VMS; this is because I'm porting my company's major product to UNIX
(from VMS) and the present screens and menus use VMS' SMG.

As of this moment, I haven't looked at pcurses in enough detail to state an
emphatic "Yes!" or "No!" in answer to your question.  From its docs, it appears
to be a fairly complete implementation, including all the terminfo stuff!

There is a commercial alternative: Aspen Scientific's product.  But I haven't
evaluated this yet under VMS (my product still must be supported on VMS after
the UNIX port).

Thad

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