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Chad R. Meiners wrote:

> "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote in message
> news:101gi766nkf57b6@corp.supernews.com...
> 
>>These days, its not clear that that would work, but so what? No one in
>> their
>>right mind used curses back then (late 80's) and I fail to see how that's
>>changed now.
> 
> I always thought they called it curses due to the foul language I used when
> trying to get it to work properly ;-)

Some serial terminals do tend to have that effect on
developers and users alike ;-)

> Win32 console API's on the other hand are a dream compared to my experience
> with curses ;-)
> 
> -CRM

That is probably true, at least until you need the blinking
attribute. The problem is sufficiently difficult that the
blink attribute does not exist in PDcurses (yet), where it
can be used in win32 environments.
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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
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