Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 11:50:48 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: tgetstr, tputs & other term functions
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On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, T.E.Dickey wrote:

> > 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?

Yes, PDCurses does use direct screen writes.

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

Why not?  AFAIK, the DJGPP port of Termcap doesn't use ANSI escape
sequences either.