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From: mfeldman AT seas DOT gwu DOT edu (Michael Feldman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.edu,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: New Release of GNAT (GNU Ada 95) and Other DOS Goodies
Date: 26 Jan 1996 20:40:32 -0500
Organization: George Washington University
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In article <slrn4gbfdt DOT 3m DOT cabal AT TerpTavern DOT umd DOT edu>,
Arcadio A. Sincero <lotu AT wam DOT umd DOT edu> wrote:
>In article <4dce8c$b2f AT felix DOT seas DOT gwu DOT edu>, Michael Feldman wrote:
>>- A binding to the DJGPP version of PD Curses, with a higher-level
>>  package called AdaTUI, Ada Textual User Interface. PD Curses is
>>  included in the distribution.
>
>
>    Where can I ftp AdaTUI?  Is source code available?  Can I recompile it
>for use with NCurses and Linux?
>
Pick it up from ftp://ftp.gwu.edu/pub/ada/ez2load/adatui.zip.

That distribution contains the source and binaries for

- pdcurses (just included for convenience from the "standard" 
            djgpp distribution)

- GNAT binding to pdcurses

- AdaTUI, a TUI package at the level of the TUI package included with
  pdcurses

- tuidemo, a program similar to the comparable C one in pdcurses.

This is free software, released under the GPL/LGPL.

Will it work with ncurses on Linux? I don't know; we haven't tried it yet.
I think it would be a _great_ idea to give it a try and release the
results. If it doesn't work "out of the box" with ncurses, I don;t
think it will be a big job to fix. Since (according to a Linux World
article about 6 months ago) ncurses is now the "officially supported"
curses in the Unix world, it is definitely worth doing.

Get back to me by e-mail if you have questions; I'm cc-ing the author,
my student Alden Dima, in case he wants to join in.

Mike Feldman
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