Announce ncurses-4.1 GNAT binding

Announce ncurses-4.1 GNAT binding

[Juergen Pfeifer]

We've just released the ncurses Version 4.1 package. This is a
clone of SystemVr4 curses running on most UNIXes. There
exist ports to OS/2 and Win/NT or Win95.
It includes a binding for the GNAT compiler (3.05 or better).

For those of you having no idea what curses is: it is a C-Library
to program terminals in a hardware independant way. It's part of
the UNIX folklore and exists in various flavours. ncurses is a free
version of it, distributed under a BSD-like license. And it is perhaps
one of the most portable and complete curses implementations.

ncurses gives you
   - a character oriented window system on terminals
   - a panel library (windows with a "depth")
   - a menu library providing one or two dimensional
       menus that may be scrolled in a window.
    - a form library with an extensible field-typechecking
        system, allowing multi-line scrollable fields and forms
        consisting of many pages.

The GNAT binding is a low-fat :-) binding (i.e. it's not thin, but
it also not a overweighted OO style binding).

You may get the package from
ftp://ftp.clark.net/pub/dickey/ncurses/ncurses-4.1.tgz

Please follow the instructions to install the whole library. Even
if you're only interested in the Ada part, you must install the
whole thing. If it's the first time you build ncurses on your
system, the  final linkstep for the Ada demo may fail on
systems with shared libraries. You should then first install the
C libraries and rerun the make.

This package is already delivered to the PAL maintainer and
will hopefully be integrated into the PAL.

Have fun
Juergen Pfeifer
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