From: ilya AT math DOT ohio-state DOT edu (Ilya Zakharevich)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: Re: Perl Curses with pdcurses2.2 on DOS... help?
Date: 15 Apr 1997 18:50:45 GMT
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
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[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to 
<jtitus18 AT interoffice DOT net>],
who wrote in article <861089176 DOT 6009 AT dejanews DOT com>:
> I've been working on getting some sort of curses support into Perl for
> DOS so I can do some more advanced UI in DOS, but I'm having a hard time
> making the make file for Curses 1.01 (MakeMaker isn't ported to
> AvtiveWare's Perl yet).  It seems so close - djgpp w/ pdcurses there, perl
> curses library (and the perlmenu module to be layered on over that)...
> Has anyone already tried this?  Any ideas what it would take to roll a
> makefile for Perl Curses from scratch?
> 
> Any help would be much appreciated, and I imagine would prove useful for
> alot of other folks...

Note that the EMX-compiled perl executable includes statically linked
BSD curses (with a tiny patch which might make them useful - they are
useless without the patch).  Look on CPAN/ports/os2/latest.

Ilya