From: Thomas Dickey <dickey AT saltmine DOT radix DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Color functions missing from PDcurses
Date: 10 Feb 2003 16:27:34 GMT
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote:
> Thomas Dickey <dickey AT saltmine DOT radix DOT net> wrote:

>> lots of linux code is written without consideration for portability
>> (the same can be said for most software).

> That may be so.  But for code using the curses library, portability
> across all existing versions of that cursed library is *very* hard to
> achieve.  Esp. without having access to the vast majority of those
> different versions.  Been there, done it, have the scars to prove it.

been there, have had success (no scars)

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