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└─⟦a0efdde77⟧ Bits:30001252 EUUGD11 Tape, 1987 Spring Conference Helsinki
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THIS IS VTRM ============ VTRM is a terminal control package, with two implementations: one for Unix (only well-tested on 4.2/4.3 BSD, but supposedly running under System 5 as well, as long as there is a termcap database), and one for MS-DOS, to be compiled with the Microsoft C compiler (tested only with version 3.0). This is a "curses replacement", which does not mean it is a curses reimplementation: the interface is totally different, only the purpose is more or less the same: to shield an application program from the nitty-gritty detail of cursor navigation, inverse video, scrolling, etc. There are also a few routines for CBREAK-mode input. UNPACKING NOTES The shars yield five files: README (this file) trm.h (common header file) p1trm.c (MS-DOS version) vtrm.c_1 vtrm.c_2 The latter two should be pasted together to get a file named vtrm.c: cat vtrm.c_[12] >vtrm.c APOLOGY I must apologize for the poor documentation. Most of it has the form of comments in the source files (note the "specs" for the entire package at the end of vtrm.c). This is a library package but I do not have an adequate test program for it; I usually test it with one of the two applications that use it -- these are too big to include in this posting. FUTURE DIRECTIONS This version of VTRM is by no means an end point in its development. Work is under way for an implementation that provides the same interface on the Macintosh. You are invided to engage in implementations for othr machines, such as as the Atari ST and the Commodore Amiga. Comments on the interface are more than welcome, and should be sent by electronic mail to guido@mcvax.uucp; this is also the address for bugfixes and other questions. AUTHORS This software was written by: Timo Krijnen and Guido van Rossum CWI, dept. AA Kruislaan 413 1089 SJ Amsterdam The Netherlands Electronic mail: timo@mcvax.uucp, guido@mcvax.uucp Phone: ... 20 - 592 4138. COPYRIGHT This software is copyright (c) 1986 by Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Its use is allowed freely for non-commercial purposes only. Use at your own risk: SMC does not take responsibility for the proper functioning of the software or for damage caused by its use. Redistribution is allowed for non-commercial purposes only, and only unchanged, in its entirety, and including this copyright notice.