Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/12/17/00:49:32
In <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 991216104049 DOT 29116W-100000 AT is> Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:
>On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Jude T. DaShiell wrote:
>> All of this has
>> me wondering what curses.h has for screen writing. If that package can do
>> both direct and bios screen writes could some list member familiar with
>> curses.h give information on the analogous functions?
>AFAIK, the DJGPP version of curses (called PDCurses) uses direct screen
>writes.
Direct screen writes are the default, but BIOS writes are configurable
at runtime by setting "PDCURSES_BIOS" in the environment. This is
documented only in the source code and should work with any program
compiled with PDCurses. I mention this in the README file included
with the DJGPP version of the lynx web browser that I distribute,
since some blind users prefer the bios writes with their screen
readers.
(http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/lynx2.8.3dev.14-DOS.zip)
Doug
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Doug Kaufman
Internet: dkaufman AT rahul DOT net
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