guido@mcvax.uucp (Guido van Rossum) (10/21/86)
In an article over two weeks old, I mentioned that I had a "replacement for curses" and was willing to offer the source. Some replies arrived, but I was not able to respond to all. In reply to you all: I am going to mail this to the mod.sources moderator, so (hoepfully) in two weeks everybody will see this source. NOTE: although this it is advertised as a curses replacement, it is not a (PD or otherwise) curses re-implementation. It is a package for terminal-independent screen I/O, based on termcap, with an application interface that is totally different from curses (the specs were posted in the announcing article). P.S.: the announcement was in the first place intended to start a discussion about the ideal interface for such a package. I received 0 (zero, nil, null, NO) reponses. Is nobody here interested in improving the world anymore, only in grabbing what they can? Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <guido@mcvax.uucp>
sewilco@mecc.UUCP (10/23/86)
In article <7114@boring.mcvax.UUCP> guido@boring.uucp (Guido van Rossum) writes: >In an article over two weeks old, I mentioned that I had a "replacement >for curses" and was willing to offer the source. Some replies arrived, ... >P.S.: the announcement was in the first place intended to start a >discussion about the ideal interface for such a package. I received 0 >(zero, nil, null, NO) reponses. Is nobody here interested in improving >the world anymore, only in grabbing what they can? The latest issue of DATAMATION mentions ANSI, Sun, and DEC each pushing window interfaces (which are a generalization of the 'curses' concept). On the net side, the job control discussion in mod.std.unix has split off a windowing discussion. [Details submitted to mod.std.unix] People ARE trying to improve the world. But the windowers want it to be perfect. :-) Until it is, I appreciate practical tools such as yours. (And I'll be updating some such tools on the real computer due soon, instead of this Lisa XENIX without flexnames) -- Scot E. Wilcoxon Minn Ed Comp Corp {quest,dicome,meccts}!mecc!sewilco 45 03 N 93 08 W (612)481-3507 ihnp4!meccts!mecc!sewilco Laws are society's common sense, recorded for the stupid. The alert question everything, and most laws are obvious to them.