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- PDCurses 2.0
- (Public Domain Curses for DOS and OS/2)
-
-
- INTRODUCTION:
-
- Well, here it finally is; PDCurses v2.0.
-
- PDCurses v2.0 is an almost total rewrite of PCCurses 1.4 done by John
- 'Frotz' Fa'atuai, the previous maintainer.
-
- This version has been tested with Microsoft C v6.0, QuickC v2.0 and
- Borland C++ 2.0 under DOS and Microsoft C v6.0 and TopSpeed c v3.02
- under OS/2 2.0. Also the library has been compiled successfully with
- emx 0.8e, C Set/2 and Watcom 9.
- Most testing was done with the large memory model where applicable.
- The large memory model is probably the best model to use.
-
- The amount of testing has not been as extensive as I would have
- liked, but demands on releasing a product have outweighed the
- product's quality. Nothing new with that !!
- Hopefully with wider circulation, more bugs will be fixed more quickly.
-
- I have included just 1 makefile which is suitable for dmake 3.8 for
- both DOS and OS/2. The makefile does not rely on customisation of the
- dmake.ini file.
-
- If you discover bugs, and especially if you have fixes, please let me
- know ASAP.
-
- The source to the library is distributed as a zip file made with zip
- 1.9. You will need Info-ZIP unzip 5.0 to unzip.
- Follow the directions below to compile the library.
-
- DIRECTIONS:
-
- 1.Create a new directory in which to unzip pdcurs20.zip. This will
- create a curses directory and a number of subdirectories containing
- source code for the library and utilities and the documentation.
-
- 2.Make changes to the makefile where necessary:
- Change the MODEL or model macro to the appropriate value (if it
- applies to your compiler). Use model for Borland compilers.
-
- Change any paths in the defined macros to be suitable for your
- compiler.
-
- 3.Invoke DMAKE [-e environment_options] [target]
-
- where environment_options are:
-
- OS (host operating system)
- COMP (compiler)
- OPT (optimised version or debug version) - optional. default Y
- TOS (target operating system) - optional. default OS
-
- see the makefile for valid combinations
-
- targets: all, demos, lcursesd.lib, manual...
-
- NB. dmake is case sensitive with targets, so those environments
- that use an upper case model value (eg MSC) MUST specify the
- library target as for eg. Lcursesd.lib
-
- The makefile is by default set up for Borland C++. The use of
- -e environment_options override these defaults. Of you prefer
- you can just change the defaults in the makefile and invoke it
- without the -e switch.
-
- OTHER NOTES:
-
- The documentation for the library is built into each source file,
- a couple of specific doc files and the header files. A program is
- supplied (manext) to build the manual. This program gets compiled
- when you build the documentation.
-
- To generate the library response file correctly, I had to write a
- quick and dirty program (buildlrf) to achive this. Originally the
- makefiles just had statements like: "echo -+$(OBJ)\$* & >> $(LRF)"
- which appended a suitable line to the response file. Unfortunately
- under some combinations of makefiles and command processors (eg.
- nmake and 4DOS) the & would get treated as stderr and the echo
- command would fail.
-
- The original source for PDCurses that I received from the previous
- maintainer contained support for the FLEXOS operating system. Not
- having access to it, I could not test the changes I made so its
- support has fallen by the wayside. If you really need to have PDCurses
- running under FLEXOS, contact me and I will see what can be arranged.
-
- Under DOS, by default, screen writes to a CGA monitor are done via
- the video BIOS rather than by direct video memory writes. This is
- due to the CGA "snow" problem. If you have a CGA monitor and do not
- suffer from snow, you can compile private\_queryad.c with CGA_DIRECT
- defined. This will then use cause PDCurses to write directly to the
- CGA video memory.
-
- COMPILER-SPECIFIC NOTES:
-
- Microsoft C
- -----------
- It is possible with MSC 6.0 to build the OS/2 libraries and demo
- programs from within DOS. This is the only case where it is possible
- to specifiy the value of TOS on the command line to be OS2 and the
- value of OS be DOS.
-
- C Set/2
- -------
- I have only tested the library using the migration libraries. I doubt
- that the demo programs will work without them.
-
- emx
- ---
- Testing has been done with 0.8e of emx together with the 16_to_32
- libraries.
- The emx\lib directory should include the vio32.lib and kbd32.lib
- libraries from the 16_to_32 package.
-
- BUGS and UNFINISHED BUSINESS:
-
- PDC_set_ctrl_break() function does not work under OS/2.
- win_print() and PDC_print() do not work under OS/2.
- The file todo.man in the doc directory also lists those functions of
- System V 3.2 curses not yet implemented. Any volunteers ?
-
- ACKNOWLEGEMENTS:
-
- John 'Frotz' Fa'atuai, the previous maintainer for providing an
- excellent base for further development.
- John Burnell (johnb@kea.am.dsir.govt.nz), for the OS/2 port.
- John Steele, Jason (finally NOT a John) Shumate....
- for various fixes and suggestions.
- Eberhardt Mattes (author of emx) for allowing code based on his
- C library to be included with PDCurses.
- Several others for their support, moral and actual.
-
-
- Good luck, Mark
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- Mark Hessling email: M.Hessling@itc.gu.edu.au
- DBA, ITS phone: + 61 7 875 7691
- Griffith University fax: + 61 7 875 7787
- Nathan 4111
- Qld Australia *** PDCurses maintainer ***
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