Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 08:46:26 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Matt Lewandowsky cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Uh oh. Another newbie. (Sorta...) In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20000807185820.00ab9b50@mail.subdimension.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Matt Lewandowsky wrote: > I'm kinda amazed theres no termcap/terminfo support under DJGPP... This is true. No one was motivated enough to write such support, although it would be easy enough to do, now that we have termios emulation. Please feel free to fill the void ;-) If you need help and guidance, please send your questions to djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, the DJGPP developers' mailing list. > Are there any compatible implementations I could build? (I didn't find > anything in the FAQ about this, either. I guess I'm just having more > problems than anyone should...) The usual practice when porting programs which rely on termcap is to modify the code to use direct screen I/O. Some examples of this approach can be found in ports of Info (in the Texinfo distribution), and in the Readline library. Also, there's GNU termcap, but I don't think it will work with DJGPP without some porting. It might get you through the configure and build stages, though, if you download and compile it, even without changing the original code.