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Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 18:19:16 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, JT Williams wrote:

> -: > It might be useful to check whether the djgpp port of PDcurses makes
> -: > the same assumptions as does ncurses.
> -: 
> -: I have pdcurses 2.5 beta on a cdrw, and it doesn't use termios at all so I 
> -: can't make a comparison.                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Interesting.
> Is this good, bad, or just a different approach to curses?

It's neither good nor bad --- it's just *very* different.  IIRC, PDCurses
doesn't even try to support terminfo as a separate subsystem to curses, so
it has not need for termios support, either.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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