jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans) (09/06/87)
In article <2247@enea.UUCP> sommar@enea.UUCP(Erland Sommarskog) writes: >Anyway, a little correction here. As far I know VAX-C curses is built on >SMG, the modern correspondence to curses on VMS. SMG has support for >non-DEC terminals. You can write your own TERMTABLE.TXT describing the >terminal you have. I guess this is just like termcap and as far as I can >read from my VMS manual, ... I have once spent some time to write a TERMTABLE.TXT for a Hewlett-Packard terminal. Very soon I found out that a). the capabilities of SMG require the terminal to be VT100 (or ANSI) alike. I could not convince SMG to use zero-relative (as opposed to one-relative) cursor addressing, for example. b). no useful [:-)] VMS program used SMG. So folks, stick to your Dec machines & Dec terminals ... PS: I posted a Unix compatible Termcap library for VAX/VMS to comp.os.vms last week. It is not curses (yet...). But maybe it helps. -- Johan Vromans | jv@mh.nl via European backbone Multihouse N.V., Gouda, the Netherlands | uucp: ..{?????!}mcvax!mh.nl!jv "It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness"