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Subject: Re: ncurses 1.9.0 released
To: ache@astral.msk.su (Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage)
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 13:54:02 -0700 (PDT)
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> In message <456.798959364@time.cdrom.com> Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
> 
> >So, when do we simply transition over ourselvse? :-)
> 
> >I've been thinking for awhile that having two curses libraries is
> >somewhat bogus.  Given that ncurses now has a `fallback mode' for
> >/etc/termcap,
DOES IT?
If so, and it's backwards compatible, then I think we should change

I've used the keyboard mapping stuff and once you've used it you
really don't want to do without it for screen based apps.


> I don't see that we have much left to wait for.  As soon
> >as 1.9.0 makes it into the tree, I'll try some experiements with
> >replacing curses entirely with it and see how it works.

good idea