Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 18:19:49 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT crl DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: djgpp version of GNU less


On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, Weiqi Gao wrote:

> I've ported it to DJGPP 1.x too (a long time ago.)  Today, I sat down
> and tried to compile the GNU less 2.9.0 (290) with DJGPP v2 beta3.
> After the usual manual configure (copy makefile.in to makefile and
> edit out all the @strings@, copy defines.h.in to defines.h and flipped
> all the flags), less compiled in v2beta3.
> 
> But the linker is complaining about missing the following functions:
>   tcgetattr(), tcsetattr(), tgetent(), tgetflag(), tgetnum(), 
>   tgetstr(), tgoto(), tputs().

I didn't use termios at all in my port.  I just wrote a new module 
djscreen.c which does all the screen-oriented operations with the conio 
functions.  It's much faster (direct screen writes) and you get color 
support for free.