chris@hwcs.UUCP (08/14/87)
Several months ago, I posted I request for info on curses-compatible
packages for the PC. Enough people expressed interest in the responses
to suggest that it is worth posting a summary; sorry for the huge delay,
but this got pushed to somewhere near the bottom of a very large stack
of tasks.
In the following list, I have summarised the information supplied from
a number of replies. Where all or most of the info has come from a
single reply, I have cited the sender. I cannot (yet) vouch for the
accuracy of any of the information below!
Lattice
Cost: US$89, $178 with source code
Source of info: several
Looking Glass Software
Compatibility: BSD and System V compatible
Support: available
Cost: US$295
Source code: no
Screens: not specified, but certainly mono and CGA
Source of info: brad@uucp.looking, phone (USA) 519-884-7473
Bjorn Larsson
Port based on Pavel Curtis' ncurses, still under development
Compatibility: "quite good so far"
Support: no
Screens: Hercules, mono, CGA
Source code: yes, MicroSoft 4.0 compiler
Cost: 0
Source of info: Bjorn Larsson (...mcvax!enea!infovax!bl)
Jeff Dean
Compatibility: BSD, partial System V
Support: not guaranteed, but probably available
Source code: Microsoft C
Screens: Hercules, EGA, CGA
Cost: shareware ($20) (+ $10 outside US for shipping), one-off fee
for permission to incorporate in commercial products.
Source of info: Jeff Dean, ...{parcvax,hplabs}!cdp!jeff
Aspen Scientific
No details supplied
Many thanks to all respondents; I hope that this is not too out-of-date.
--
Chris Miller, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
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