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From: karl@grebyn.COM (Karl A. Nyberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Curses interface
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Date: 15 Dec 87 15:17:15 GMT
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> Has anyone an Ada interface to the C routines from the termcap
> library? We would have a package for terminal independent 
> screen oriented output in Ada. The most natural way to do this,
> is to make use of the C-routines of termcap. 
> We were wondering whether someone else has already defined an
> interface package, preferably for a Verdix 5.41 compiler to
> run under 4.3BSD.

Check out the stuff from the Simtel Ada Repository.  In particular, there is
a set of packages in virterm that does exactly that.  Here's the top of the
file curses.pro.  You want the file pd2:<ada.virterm>curses.src for the
pragma interface stuff.

You might prefer the one that comes from Verdix. Under VADS 5.41 (and
later), you'll find a complete set of interface routines for this included
with the release in the subdirectory publiclib, files curses_spec.a and
curses_body.a

There's also a complete implementation of a virtual terminal package in Ada
in the same directory on SIMTEL20, although I can't vouch for its utility.

-- Karl --

-------- SIMTEL20 Ada Software Repository Prologue ------------
--                                                           -*
-- Unit name    : curses interface package specification
-- Version      : 1.0
-- Author       : Steve Rosen
--              : Siemens Research
--              : 
--              : 
-- DDN Address  : vrdxhq!siemens!gypsy!rosen@seismo
-- Copyright    : (c) 
-- Date created :  6 August 1985
-- Release date :  6 August 1985
-- Last update  :  6 August 1985
-- Machine/System Compiled/Run on : VADS VAX/UNIX 4.06
--                                                           -*
---------------------------------------------------------------
--                                                           -*
-- Keywords     :  display, terminal update, screen
----------------:
--
-- Abstract     :  This package provides an interface to the UNIX
----------------:  curses package through Ada.
--                                                           -*
------------------ Revision history ---------------------------
--                                                           -*
-- DATE         VERSION	AUTHOR                  HISTORY
-- ???		0.0	Steve Rosen		Initial Release
-- 8/6/85	1.0	Karl A. Nyberg		Release to SIMTEL
--                                                           -*
------------------ Distribution and Copyright -----------------