MSIEWEKE@GTRI01 (Mike Sieweke) (06/17/88)
Has anyone heard of a public domain curses package for VMS? The one that
comes with the VAX C run-time library is too slow for our needs.
Any help/suggestions/sniglets appreciated.
Mike Sieweke <msieweke@gtri01> BitNet
or <sysmike@gtri86.gatech.edu> ArpaNet
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Atlanta, Georgiadennis@uw-warp.UUCP (Dennis Gentry) (07/02/88)
Yes, there is a very nice public domain curses package that works just
fine on VMS. I don't know how its speed compares to the one that
comes with the VAX(/VMS) C run-time library. I see its major
advantages to be: 1) you get full sources, 2) it is free, and 3) it is
apparently bug-free.
It is the one written by Richard Stallman of the Free Software
Foundation, and is distributed with GNU Emacs. Also, you might be
interested in completely replacing your VAX(/VMS) C with the GNU C
compiler, since GNU C is reported to generate better code, and has the
added virtue of being free. It, too, is available from the Free
Software Foundation. If you don't know anyone who already has it, you
can order a VMS tape for something like $150. If you do know someone
who has it, you can freely copy it. I am including an order form at
the end of this article, but the form is old enough that it does not
list the GNU C compiler for VMS, which is now being distributed.
If you can anonymously ftp to prep.ai.mit.edu, you can get at least
the curses implementation. It's at least in the emacs source
subdirectory of the emacs distribution (/u2/emacs/edist-18.51.tar.Z, I
think it is). Since that is an awful lot of stuff to move just for
curses (2.5Mb), I will send you a copy of the relevant files via
e-mail if you request them from me. Please check around locally
first before asking me, though. Thanks.
Dennis.
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