[Coco] curses update

[richec]

On Monday 16 November 2009 10:29:20 Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 10:02 AM, richec <rcrislip at neo.rr.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 16 November 2009 09:45:34 Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> >> >From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncurses
> >>
> >> ncurses is a programming library providing an API, allowing the
> >> programmer to write text user interfaces in a terminal-independent
> >> manner. It's a toolkit for developing "GUI-like" apps which run under
> >> a terminal emulator. It also optimizes screen changes, in order to
> >> reduce the latency experienced when using remote shells.
> >>
> >> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:04 AM, richec <rcrislip at neo.rr.com> wrote:
> >> > < S N I P !  8-) >
> >> >
> >> > Hi Willard,
> >> >
> >> > Forgive my ignorance, are you working on a untility called curses or a
> >> > game? TIA. I am asking because I am trying to figure out how to
> >> > classify this thread in my archives.
> >> >
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> > Thanks Aaron,
> >
> > I have a much better idea of where to file this discussion now. My
> > Programming experiences have been limited to CoCo BASIC, IBM mainframe
> > Assembler, COBOL, FORTRAN, and a few other languages that are not in much
> > use today <sigh>. Although I do have some very limited exposure to C++...
> > I was teaching it 8-O. I am NOT a programmer however, which is why I am
> > not familiar with this tool.
> 
> Even as a "non programer" these days, the work to port curses is great
> news because a huge amount of software which is freely available in
> source form uses this library for it's screen output.  This is a big
> step in opening the door to porting that software to os9.  I haven't
> had time to play with Mr. Goosey's code yet, but I am very excited to
> hear about the progress and plan to start working with it soon.
> 
> -Aaron
> 
> > Richard
> >
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Well, all I have to say is it is very cool to see you, Boisy, Roger, Willard, 
and I just know I am leaving a whole host of others out, continuing to 
develope software on a system that by all rights rights should have been put 
out to pasture with the B-52... Oh Wait! people are still using and  
developing for that too 8-)!