From: "T.E.Dickey" <dickey AT clark DOT net>
Subject: Re: tgetstr, tputs & other term functions
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 13:50:55 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Eduardo M Kalinowski wrote:

>>     I've been trying to compile a UNIX program under MS-DOS with DJGPP.
>> The compilation was easy, the changes, minor. The problem was linking.
>> The program calls a number of times some functions of the curses library
>> related to termcap and terminfo, especiall tgetstr and tputs. PDCurses
>> 2.2 does not have those functions. Does anyone have some idea to solve
>> the problem?

> These functions are not from Curses, they are from Termcap.  I think
> there's a DJGPP port of GNU Termcap library somewhere.

perhaps - but doesn't pdcurses use direct I/O rather than ANSI.SYS?

(if so, then termcap functions cannot be mixed with the pdcurses calls)

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