Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 14:28:24 -0500
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Dave Montgomery <dmont AT tradeit DOT com>
Subject: Re: djgpp version of GNU less

At 06:19 PM 1/11/96 +0200, you wrote:
>
>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.

Care to pop it onto an ftp site somewhere??

Regards,
   Dave Montgomery
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