stergios@Jessica.stanford.edu (stergios marinopoulos) (03/21/89)
Thanks to everyone who sent me info on the various p.c. curses
available (one humorous person even offered a list of nasty words!)
It seems there are quite a few (>5?) pd versions of curses, and two or
three for sale versions.
I received many requests for summary information, so here are most of
the responses I received in condensed form.
stergios
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From: Keith Petersen <w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
Stergios, there are two versions of curses for MSDOS available from
Simtel20. They are in directory pd1:<msdos.screen>.
Maintainer of the CP/M & MSDOS archives at wsmr-simtel20.army.mil [26.0.0.74]
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From: Keith Petersen <w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL>
Stergios, the 00-INDEX.TXT files are a listing of *some* of the files
in each directory. We haven't finished cataloging the whole
collection.
Here is what you are looking for:
Filename Type Bytes CRC
Directory PD1:<MSDOS.SCREEN>
PCCURS13.ARC BINARY 94814 5768H
Name Length Stowage SF Size now Date Time CRC
============ ======== ======== ==== ======== ========= ====== ====
ATTRIB.C 3926 Crunched 68% 1280 2 Nov 88 9:37p 69F1
BEEP.C 1544 Crunched 53% 734 2 Nov 88 9:38p D709
BORDER.C 2275 Crunched 58% 958 2 Nov 88 9:38p 0ADB
BOXES.C 4330 Crunched 54% 2035 2 Nov 88 9:38p 9A68
CHARADD.C 7418 Crunched 61% 2907 2 Nov 88 9:38p E264
CHARDEL.C 3197 Crunched 57% 1393 2 Nov 88 9:38p C946
CHARGET.C 9239 Crunched 57% 3990 2 Nov 88 9:38p 0131
CHARINS.C 5633 Crunched 62% 2150 2 Nov 88 9:39p 386F
CHARPICK.C 2462 Crunched 58% 1035 2 Nov 88 9:39p ACA7
CLRTOBOT.C 3442 Crunched 56% 1529 2 Nov 88 9:39p 6425
CLRTOEOL.C 3222 Crunched 57% 1409 2 Nov 88 9:39p D444
CURSES.CMD 674 Crunched 50% 343 2 Nov 88 9:39p E653
CURSES.H 13551 Crunched 61% 5396 2 Nov 88 9:40p E298
CURSES.MAN 14723 Crunched 54% 6887 2 Nov 88 9:40p 9E10
CURSESIO.ASM 8683 Crunched 58% 3656 2 Nov 88 9:40p E8F2
CURSESIO.C 7128 Crunched 63% 2685 2 Nov 88 9:41p FAD2
CURSPRIV.H 3927 Crunched 47% 2108 2 Nov 88 9:41p 990A
ENDWIN.C 1551 Crunched 47% 824 2 Nov 88 9:41p 5B81
FARCALL.INC 17 -- 0% 17 2 Nov 88 9:42p B2FB
HUGEDATA.INC 18 -- 0% 18 2 Nov 88 9:42p AEA0
INITSCR.C 2405 Crunched 45% 1323 2 Nov 88 9:42p 3787
LINEDEL.C 3222 Crunched 58% 1385 2 Nov 88 9:42p 526B
LINEINS.C 3100 Crunched 57% 1354 2 Nov 88 9:42p 9F11
LONGNAME.C 1208 Crunched 50% 611 2 Nov 88 9:43p C41B
MAKEFILE.MSC 10519 Crunched 64% 3806 2 Nov 88 9:36p 2ADA
MAKEFILE.TRC 10504 Crunched 64% 3804 2 Nov 88 9:37p B2A1
MOVE.C 1637 Crunched 52% 788 2 Nov 88 9:43p C6CD
MVCURSOR.C 1477 Crunched 49% 762 2 Nov 88 9:43p B4AF
NEARCALL.INC 17 -- 0% 17 2 Nov 88 9:43p 72AA
NEWWIN.C 6113 Crunched 57% 2652 2 Nov 88 9:43p 972F
OPTIONS.C 4423 Crunched 62% 1720 2 Nov 88 9:44p 845F
OVERLAY.C 3834 Crunched 56% 1719 2 Nov 88 9:44p 6A9F
PCCURS13.MSG 4043 Crunched 50% 2036 2 Nov 88 10:22p C5EC
PRNTSCAN.C 6780 Crunched 62% 2577 2 Nov 88 9:44p 54AC
README.NOW 12438 Crunched 49% 6425 2 Nov 88 9:37p D349
REFRESH.C 3547 Crunched 54% 1651 2 Nov 88 9:45p 822F
SCRREG.C 1901 Crunched 53% 906 2 Nov 88 9:45p EE4A
SETMODE.C 3362 Crunched 58% 1435 2 Nov 88 9:46p 11CC
SETTERM.C 3111 Crunched 59% 1276 2 Nov 88 9:46p 4BB9
SMALDATA.INC 18 -- 0% 18 2 Nov 88 9:46p 6EF1
STRADD.C 2748 Crunched 58% 1167 2 Nov 88 9:47p F1C2
STRGET.C 5890 Crunched 54% 2723 2 Nov 88 9:47p 7768
TABSIZE.C 1712 Crunched 55% 781 2 Nov 88 9:48p 6E48
TERMMISC.C 3006 Crunched 58% 1277 2 Nov 88 9:48p 0E47
UNCTRL.C 2171 Crunched 48% 1140 2 Nov 88 9:48p B319
UPDATE.C 8691 Crunched 61% 3449 2 Nov 88 9:48p B6A0
WINCLEAR.C 1620 Crunched 54% 759 2 Nov 88 9:49p CC80
WINDEL.C 1575 Crunched 48% 823 2 Nov 88 9:49p DDD4
WINERASE.C 2049 Crunched 52% 987 2 Nov 88 9:49p AEF7
WINMOVE.C 1402 Crunched 48% 737 2 Nov 88 9:49p 104D
WINSCROL.C 2149 Crunched 50% 1093 2 Nov 88 9:49p E7A4
WINTOUCH.C 1451 Crunched 49% 749 2 Nov 88 9:50p 161D
==== ======== ==== ========
Total 52 215083 57% 93304
And a second choice:
Filename Type Bytes CRC
Directory PD1:<MSDOS.SCREEN>
PCURSES.ARC BINARY 358404 63A3H
Name Length Stowage SF Size now Date Time CRC
============ ======== ======== ==== ======== ========= ====== ====
DATA.ARC 47211 -- 0% 47211 17 Dec 86 12:39p 93EE
DOC.ARC 137970 -- 0% 137970 17 Dec 86 12:40p C7C5
MILLE.ARC 25955 -- 0% 25955 26 Jan 87 4:30p C8DC
README.NOW 954 Crunched 28% 693 7 Jun 87 8:10p C9F8
SRC.ARC 146428 -- 0% 146428 22 Mar 87 2:54p F7B2
==== ======== ==== ========
Total 5 358518 1% 358257
Here is the README.NOW file:
This is a hacked up version of Pavel Curtis' PDCURSES for terminfo
that is available for anonymous ftp at seismo in the mod.sources
archives. It should complile and work fine for MSC 4.0 - however,
it still has bugs that will manifest when some of the more esoteric
functions are used.
To unpack, put the pieces of the uuencoded mailing together,
run it through uudecode, download to your PC, and use pkxarc3.5
to unpack (pkxarc3.5 was just posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc about
2 weeks ago). Each archive could contain other archives. These
archives must be moved to directories of the same name and then
un-arced again in order for the makefile to function properly.
Lastly, don't worry about saving this note. Its enclosed within
the archive. This is for those absent minded types who won't get
around to un-arcing this for another few months. Hope y'all have
fun playing with this.
---
I believe the first ARC is the better of the two but you might want to
keep the second in mind in case there are any problems.
--Keith
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From: todd@stiatl.UUCP (Todd Merriman)
I use a commercial version of Curses for the PC from Aspen Scientific.
If you're interested, I'll post the address (it's at home).
...!gatech!stiatl!todd
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From: tron!moran@umbc3@umbc3
"pccurses" was posted to comp.sources.misc in volume 5 (early Nov
`88). It is entries v05i022 thru v05i027. Compressed, the total byte
count is about 100K, which means about double that for mail compatible
format. You will need a Microsoft C 4.0 compiler or a Turbo-C 1.0
compiler to use this according to the DOC's.
Check your nearest comp.sources.misc site. If you don't know
about archive sites, try reading the newsgroup comp.archives. Or perhaps
local mail to "root" will get you the information.
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From: Gene Daniel <tektronix!sequent!gssc!gened@RELAY.CS.NET>
I have a public domain curses package that was posted to the net a
little while back. It is quite large ( > 200k ) so please let me know if you
still need it.
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From: Wayne Aiken <NETOPRWA%NCSUVM.BITNET@Forsythe.Stanford.EDU>
I have a couple versions of Curses for the PC on my bulletin board. One
version is shareware, without sources, and the other package is complete
with sources suitable for Microsoft C 4.0 or 5.1. I have used the latter,
it seems complete and works well.
If you want to dial in and get it yourself (the quickest way), call the
BBS at (919) 782-3095. You will have full downloading privileges, and the
files are listed in download directory #11.
If you can't do that, if you send me a formatted disk and SASE, then I will
copy it and mail it to you. The address is in the .signature.
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From: hughes@bosco.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Hughes)
I use Aspen Scientific curses, a commercial package. I works great.
Available at the Programmer's Shop. This version is System V compatible,
which means it supports pads as well as windows.