Re: console problem

From: Andy Valencia <vandys_at_nospam.org>
Date: Mon Jun 22 1998 - 08:03:42 PDT

["Robin J Bradley (3Y0)" <rjb108@ugrad.cs.york.ac.uk> writes:]

>I belive hte main problem is with the curses library which last time I looked
>did not support handling ansi escape sequances. It looks like the old BSD
>curses library not the newer ncurses style which will convert escape codes
>into something meaningfull.

Yes, that'd be whatever was easy to grab ~6 years ago.

>Perhaps we should update the curses library ?

Sounds good to me! I guess I could go try and port the FreeBSD version.

                                                        Andy
Received on Mon Jun 22 04:16:18 1998

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