moran@yale-zoo-suned..arpa (William Moran) (10/26/87)
I recently ftp-ed the pcurses package which was distributed in
mod.sources a while ago, and I now have several questions. Did anyone
actually port this stuff to MS-DOS? Looking through the sources, I
notice places where there are #ifdef MSDOS directives, but there are
some things which I cannot believe make it on an msdos system such as
#include-s of sgtty.h. Further the make file seems to be using true
Un*x power (something I haven't seen in too many PC c compilers). So,
I conclude that one of the following is true:
1) Someone had started the port and the version I have is incomplete
2) Someone out there has a much smarter MS-DOS C compiler than I do
3) This is really intended to be cross compiled to ms-dos from some
other OS (I decided it couldn't be Xenix since I am under the
impression (possibly mistaken) that while one can cross compile
executables this way, the same is not true for libraries).
4) This really could be compiled on a DOS system, I'm just missing the
point.
So, I am yelling for help (HELP!). If anyone has more information on
this subject, please send me mail. It's probably not worth posting a
reply, but whatever... Thanks in advance.
Bill Moran
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****************************************************************************iverson@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Tim Iverson) (10/27/87)
In article <18086@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> moran@yale-zoo-suned.UUCP (William Moran) writes: >I recently ftp-ed the pcurses package which was distributed in >mod.sources a while ago, and I now have several questions. Did anyone >actually port this stuff to MS-DOS? It looks like you got ahold of a copy of the port that I did. It works, but still has some rough spots that need to be fixed before I post (like replacing all the terminfo stuff with termcap - the whole terminfo concept is brain damaged and cock-eyed). >Looking through the sources, I >notice places where there are #ifdef MSDOS directives, but there are >some things which I cannot believe make it on an msdos system such as >#include-s of sgtty.h. This is just the standard UNIX sgtty.h. I included it just for the structure defines - this is another of those rough spots. > Further the make file seems to be using true >Un*x power (something I haven't seen in too many PC c compilers). So, I used ndmake, by Don Kneller. Shareware & true UNIX compatibility. >I conclude that one of the following is true: >1) Someone had started the port and the version I have is incomplete >2) Someone out there has a much smarter MS-DOS C compiler than I do Just standard msc4.0, but after 3 years of porting stuff from the net to msdos, my libraries & headers resemble unix rather more than they did at first. :-) The most recent version (which hasn't changed since last time) can be ftp'd from ucbvax -> /pub/pcurses.arc. There isn't likely to be another more polished version for at least 6 months. You might want to look into pccurses; its another port of Pavel Curtis' pcurses, but to ibmpc's, not to msdos - it uses the BIOS extensively; I can't recall finding any major bugs in it. Check the comp.sources.misc archives for this one. - Tim Iverson iverson@cory.Berkeley.EDU ucbvax!cory!iverson
moran@yale-zoo-suned..arpa (William Moran) (10/29/87)
Thanks for the responses to the query about pcurses; I got one from
the sysadmin here who had done a port. Rough spots, I asked myself
while pounding on the screen? Oh well, I should'a know better than to
ftp pcurses from a strange system (ucbvax.berkeley.edu). Isn't
that the porter's system??
Bill Moran
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