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From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Using gnat & ncurses
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:45:50 +0000 (UTC)
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Ludovic Brenta expounded in news:87iq8w3yij.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org:

> Dirk Heinrichs writes:
>> Warren wrote:
>>
>>> It just occurred to me that there was some sort
>>> of Ada binding in ncurses IIRC. Has anyone here
>>> had any experience with it?  Maybe that would
>>> circumvent this main program annoyance among other
>>> things.
>>
>> Most distributions don't seem to package the Ada bindings, although
>> they exist since years. Interestingly, libncurses5-dev in Debian
>> contains the docs for them.
> 
> Debian 5.0 "Lenny" has libtexttools-dev, 6.0 "Squeeze" has
> libtexttools2-dev.  They provide a thick binding to curses with
> additional functionality.

The last time I downloaded ncurses to install on HPUX, I
recall turning off the build for it. But at the time, I
wasn't curious (time was short).

Warren