From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: djgpp & ncurses
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 20:50:41 +0100
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Hello.

bdeck wrote:
[snip]
> The problem that we are working on is support for multibyte keys (like arrow
> keys), as DJGPP does not provide a poll() function, which NCurses currently
> uses. We are working on a possible select() solution ??
[snip]

I have wondered if poll could be implement as a wrapper for select. Have you
thought about or tried that?

I'd like to implement poll for the DJGPP 2.04 release, because it's part of
the POSIX standard.

Bye, Rich =]

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