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"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 ;-)

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

-CRM