From: Thomas Dickey <dickey AT saltmine DOT radix DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: djgpp & ncurses
Date: 29 Jul 2003 16:20:11 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> I don't see why Thomas would say that the difference is
> ``significant''.  AFAICS, adding `poll' to DJGPP should be easy,
> either as a wrapper for `select', or as a separate module reusing most
> of the code in `select'.  I think this would be a welcome addition.

( nor do I - except that I observe that on some platforms one or the other
of the two functions does not work well ;-)

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