[Coco] curses 0.11 upload!
Willard Goosey
goosey at virgo.sdc.org
Sat Jun 11 02:51:06 EDT 2011
Speaking of terminal endependence...
I have uploaded Curses 0.11 to
http://www.sdc.org/~goosey/os9/curses011.lzh
Egg on Willard's face time: So, I was convinced that there was a bug in
termcap? The only bug in termcap is that it's more memory-hungry than I
thought it was. On Gene's excellent advice, that most C program crashes
were the result of a memory screw, I went through a Curses program,
actually adding up all the data memory it used.
Turns out that even the minimal possible curses program,
main() {initscr();} uses over 7K of data!
I knew Curses used a lot of memory. Termcap, particularly tgetent(),
easily uses 2-3 K to do its thing.
So here's a new curses! Use it, break it, tell me about it! But be
sure to give it enough data space.
Willard
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Willard Goosey goosey at sdc.org
Socorro, New Mexico, USA
I search my heart and find Cimmeria, land of Darkness and the Night.
-- R.E. Howard
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